Introduction

1. "Hold Oneself Well in Hand": Medicine, Menopause, and the New Woman

2. "Endocrine Perverts" and "Derailed Menopausics": Gender Transgressions and Mental Disorders, 1897-1937

3. "Consider the Patent as a Woman and Not a Groups of Gland": Women, Menopause, and the Medical Encounter, 1938-1962

4. Domesticity and Liberation: Menopause in the Popular Literature, 1938-1962

5. "Casting an Evil Spell over Her Once Happy Home": Menopause as a Family Disease, 1938-1962

6. "Why All the Fuss?" Middle-Class Women and the Denial of the Menopausal Body, 1938-1962

7. Feminine Forever: Robert A. Wilson and the Hormonal Revolution, 1963-1980

8. "At the Will and Whim of My Hormones": Women, Menopause, and the Hormonal Imperative

9. "What Do These Women Want?" Feminist Responses to Feminine Forever

Epilogue. Aging Supermodels and Inner Crones: Menopause at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Notes

Index

Photo by Warren J. Houck

Judith A. Houck is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Departments of Women’s Studies, Medical History and Bioethics, and History of Science, as well as at the Center for Women's Health Research.