The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing
A History
- 2022 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Women's Studies (Adult Nonfiction)
The first comprehensive study of the origins of the medical concept of menopause, telling a complex story of how women's ageing featured in the demographic revolution in modern science, in the denigration of folk medicine, in the unique French field of hygiene, and in the fixation on women in the emergence of modern psychiatry.
