This groundbreaking book challenges the medicalized approach to
women's experiences including menstruation, pregnancy, and
menopause and suggests that there are better ways for women to cope
with real issues they may face. Before any woman diets, douches,
botoxes, reduces, reconstructs, or fills a prescription for
antidepressants, statins, hormones, menstrual suppressants, or diet
pills, she should read this book. Contesting common medical
practice, the book addresses the many aspects of women's lives that
have been targeted as "deficient" in order to support the
billion-dollar profits of the medical-pharmacological industry and
suggests alternatives to these "remedies." The
contributors-psychologists, sociologists, and health experts-are
also gender experts and feminist scholars who recognize the ways in
which gender is an important aspect of the human experience. In
this eye-opening work, they challenge the marketing and "science"
that increasingly render women's bodies and experiences as a series
of symptoms, diseases, and dysfunctions that require treatment by
medical professionals who prescribe pharmaceutical and surgical
interventions. Each article in the book addresses the marketing of
a specific "condition" that has been constructed in a way that
convinces a woman that her body is inadequate or her experience and
behavior are not good enough. Among the topics addressed are
menstruation, menopause, pregnancy, post-partum adjustment, sexual
desire, weight, body dissatisfaction, moodiness, depression, grief,
and anxiety. Addresses popular topics including the "thin ideal,"
the health realities of weight, cosmetic surgery, birth as a
medical emergency, sexual desire and menopause, depression, and
mourning Critiques the "science" and marketing that sees all
women's complaints as symptoms, diseases, and dysfunctions
requiring medical treatment Explains how psychological and social
factors affect women's health and argues for a more well-founded
approach such as using talk therapy first Explains why events like
menopause, sexual desire, body dissatisfaction, and grief are
examples of issues often not best treated with drugs, but with
psychotherapy for permanent resolution Will appeal to all adult
women who might, or do, question current medical approaches and
media promises
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