Hot and Bothered

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Hot and Bothered is written by Judith A HOUCK and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674038819 (ISBN 10) and 9780674038813 (ISBN 13).

How did menopause change from being a natural (and often welcome) end to a woman's childbearing years to a deficiency disease in need of medical and pharmacological intervention? By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developments and by changing roles for women and the changing definition of womanhood.