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Cargando... The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopausepor Susan P. Mattern
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"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."--Publisher's website. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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However, there were great swathes of material here that seemed extraneous to the matter at hand, and when Mattern strayed close to areas I know something about I found myself wincing a bit. (Le Roy Ladurie and Duby are certainly both important historians, but in the 2010s they’re not the people whose work I’d be looking to first to make arguments about the role of women in medieval western Europe.) This is also such ‘big history’—spanning hundreds of thousands of years and drawing a lot on quantitative anthropological and ethnographical studies—that I felt it to an extent lost sight of people. I know that it’s tedious to say “this isn’t the book that I would have written on this topic”, but I feel like Mattern’s point would have been served better by foregrounding people’s stories as much as possible rather than on theories and stats. ( )