In Full Possession of Her Powers: Researching and Rethinking Menopause in early Twentieth-century England and Scotland
In Full Possession of Her Powers: Researching and Rethinking Menopause in early Twentieth-century England and Scotland
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完全掌握她的权力：研究和反思二十世纪初英格兰和苏格兰的更年期
DOI：
10.1093/shm/hkr170
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发表时间：
2012
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0.7
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Strange J
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作者：
Strange J
本文探讨了成立于1917年的医学妇女联合会试图挑战更年期不适的医学叙述。1926年开始的一项对1 000名妇女更年期经历的调查得出结论，与更年期是危险或关键时期的主流范式相反，更年期的常见症状并没有在任何显著程度上干扰妇女的生活或总体福祉。尽管在关于妇女健康的批评性文献中有许多提到这项调查，作为更年期医学范式转变的证据，但对研究问题、结论或其背景的分析却很少。本文探讨了调查，它进行的背景下，其作者的愿望，利用健康妇女的生理变化的经验，为政治和文化目的。
This essay examines the attempts by the Medical Women's Federation, founded in 1917, to challenge a medical narrative of menopausal malaise. A survey begun in 1926 of 1,000 women's menopausal experience concluded that, contrary to dominant paradigms of menopause as a dangerous or critical time, the common symptoms of menopause did not interfere with women's lives or general well-being to any significant degree. Despite numerous references to the survey in the critical literature on women's health as evidence of a shift in medical paradigms of menopause, little analysis of the research questions, conclusions or its context exists. This essay examines the survey, the context in which it was conducted and the desire of its authors to use healthy women's experiences of physiological changes for political and cultural ends.