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Shea, Jeanne Laraine.

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Revolutionary women at middle age: An ethnographic survey of menopause and midlife aging in Beijing, China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Revolutionary women at middle age: An ethnographic survey of menopause and midlife aging in Beijing, China./
Author:	Shea, Jeanne Laraine.
Description:	353 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-05, Section: A, page: 1647.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-05A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9832306
ISBN:	0591853965

Revolutionary women at middle age: An ethnographic survey of menopause and midlife aging in Beijing, China.
Shea, Jeanne Laraine.

Revolutionary women at middle age: An ethnographic survey of menopause and midlife aging in Beijing, China. - 353 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-05, Section: A, page: 1647.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1998.

In this dissertation, I examine Chinese women's experiences of menopause and middle age. I demonstrate the limitations of classic Western theories of female midlife for characterizing the set of normative experiences reported by mainland Chinese women today. More specifically, I challenge prevailing psychodynamic and gynecological theories that presume that menopause and middle age are low points in the life trajectories of the vast majority of women across most physical, psychological, and social dimensions of their lives. I also challenge the common assumption that universal psychobiological processes, such as estrogen decline, the biological clock, or the "empty nest," are primary determinants of women's experiences of midlife.

ISBN: 0591853965Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Revolutionary women at middle age: An ethnographic survey of menopause and midlife aging in Beijing, China.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1998.
520 $a In this dissertation, I examine Chinese women's experiences of menopause and middle age. I demonstrate the limitations of classic Western theories of female midlife for characterizing the set of normative experiences reported by mainland Chinese women today. More specifically, I challenge prevailing psychodynamic and gynecological theories that presume that menopause and middle age are low points in the life trajectories of the vast majority of women across most physical, psychological, and social dimensions of their lives. I also challenge the common assumption that universal psychobiological processes, such as estrogen decline, the biological clock, or the "empty nest," are primary determinants of women's experiences of midlife.
520 $a Menopause and middle age are times of relatively good health, emotional state, and social status for a large proportion of contemporary Chinese women. This is because women's experiences of midlife are influenced not just by biological and psychological mechanisms, but also by cultural concepts, social institutions, socioeconomic position, and local historical processes. In particular, Chinese women's views both of menopause and middle age in general and of their own personal somatic, emotional, and social condition in particular are strongly influenced by local discourse on the generational histories of the "civil war," "nation-building," and "Cultural Revolution" cohorts and on these cohorts' respective gains and losses throughout trajectories of social, economic, and political change.
520 $a Cross-cultural comparison with research conducted by Lock in Japan, Kaufert in Canada, and McKinlay in the U.S. reveals that like Japanese women, Chinese women exhibit a much lower rate of hot-flash reporting than North Americans. But, comparison across a longer list of symptoms reveals that Chinese women have a higher rate of overall symptom-reporting than any group. These unexpected findings suggest that allusions to Eastern vs. Western attitudes toward aging cannot provide sufficient explanation of cross-cultural differences in symptom-reporting. Instead, we must explore the complex interaction of local physiologies, cultural concepts, social practices, economic processes, institutional structures, generational histories, and patterns of social change.
520 $a Overall, this dissertation addresses the biology versus culture and culture versus history debates in social anthropology.
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