Let's face it: almost everyone fears growing older. We worry about losing our looks, our
health, our jobs, our self-esteem—and being supplanted in work and love by younger …

Although much of the early sociological and feminist analysis of medicalization focused on
reproductive issues and childbirth, attention has moved away from this topic over time as …

Health psychology has tended to undervalue analyses of media representations of health,
disease and illness. In this article I argue that critical approaches to media texts and images …

The gerontological literature in the social sciences has typically characterized the aging
process in terms of decline, degeneration, and decrepitude. Comparatively little attention …

We investigated the experience and perspectives of menopause among 48 UK mothers
through qualitative in-depth interviews. Interviews were analyzed thematically then explored …

The authors of this book are women who have been, and in many cases still are, associated
with what was formerly the Department of Applied Social Studies at Keele University and is …

In this article I report on a research project conducted in Perth, Western Australia, which
investigated how contemporary women experience physiological and psychosocial midlife …

Biomedical literature suggests that menopause primarily represents negative change in
women's lives. Feminist literature on menopause proposes that it can represent positive …

In lively, accessible prose, this book expands the reach and depth of age studies. A review
of age studies methods in theory, literature, and practice leads readers to see how their own …

Introduction. This study explored the information practices of perimenopausal women, using
the results to test the transferability of McKenzie's model of information practices in everyday …