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The Slow Moon Climbs - The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause (Hardcover)
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The Slow Moon Climbs - The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause (Hardcover)
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The first comprehensive look at menopause from prehistory to today
Are the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Historian Susan
Mattern says yes, and The Slow Moon Climbs reveals just how wrong
we have been. Taking readers from the rainforests of Paraguay to
the streets of Tokyo, Mattern draws on historical, scientific, and
cultural research to reveal how our perceptions of menopause
developed from prehistory to today. For most of human history,
people had no word for menopause and did not view it as a medical
condition. Rather, in traditional foraging and agrarian societies,
it was a transition to another important life stage. This book,
then, introduces new ways of understanding life beyond fertility.
Mattern examines the fascinating "Grandmother Hypothesis"-which
argues for the importance of elders in the rearing of future
generations-as well as other evolutionary theories that have
generated surprising insights about menopause and the place of
older people in society. She looks at agricultural communities
where households relied on postreproductive women for the family's
survival. And she explores the emergence of menopause as a medical
condition in the Western world. It was only around 1700 that people
began to see menopause as a dangerous pathological disorder linked
to upsetting symptoms that rendered women weak and vulnerable.
Mattern argues that menopause was another syndrome, like hysterical
suffocation or melancholia, that emerged or reemerged in early
modern Europe in tandem with the rise of a professional medical
class. The Slow Moon Climbs casts menopause, at last, in the
positive light it deserves-not only as an essential life stage, but
also as a key factor in the history of human flourishing.
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