The time of the change: Menopause's medicalization and the gender politics of aging

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 7 (1):74 (2014)
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Abstract

As a nexus of fertility’s finitude and female midlife, menopause is a physical and cultural phenomenon through which the relation between the medicalization of the female reproductive cycle and normative attitudes toward aging become expressed. Age, like other systems of separation, can function as an “instrument of regulatory regimes” and shows similarities to gender in its body-bound, surface-focused, and morally coded position in the sociomedical sphere. However, although age is an influential social category, its reliance on historical and epistemic constructions of the body has not been politicized to a degree comparable to other categories like gender, race, and sexuality. As Kathleen.

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