The origins of the medical construction of the menopause are examined here, making complementary use of approaches borrowed from the social history of knowledge. The first question concerns the variety of terms used to designate “cessation of the menses”. These developments must be viewed in relation to the new scales of human life that were being elaborated over the period. Did this signal the first emergence of a gendering of the ages of life? Does the French expression âge de retour refer to an age that is specific to women, as certain authors suggest? The medicalization of the menopause can thus be placed in perspective, before looking more closely at the key moments of its construction over the period in question (1770-1836). Last, a f...
My dissertation argues that various efforts to standardize the French language over the period 1538-...
This PhD deals with menopause as a category and an experience. It aims to understand the actors and ...
My dissertation argues that various efforts to standardize the French language over the period 1538-...
La genèse de la construction médicale de la ménopause est ici appréhendée en croisant des approches ...
Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the ...
La ménopause was a term invented to emphasize the non-pathological and strictly female nature of the...
This article considers a range of moral views about sexuality and menopause espoused both by doctora...
How has medicine contributed to shape bodies, from Antiquity to the present day? Can it be said that...
International audienceIn this paper I address the question of menopause in the French context as a s...
This article discusses the moment in which normative ideas about aging and reproductive embodiment b...
This article discusses the moment in which normative ideas about aging and reproductive embodiment b...
Research Framework: Long conducted in parallel, studies on life stages and gender have converged mor...
This PhD deals with menopause as a category and an experience. It aims to understand the mechanisms ...
This PhD deals with menopause as a category and an experience. It aims to understand the mechanisms ...
During the period contained between the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19...
My dissertation argues that various efforts to standardize the French language over the period 1538-...
This PhD deals with menopause as a category and an experience. It aims to understand the actors and ...
My dissertation argues that various efforts to standardize the French language over the period 1538-...
La genèse de la construction médicale de la ménopause est ici appréhendée en croisant des approches ...
Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the ...
La ménopause was a term invented to emphasize the non-pathological and strictly female nature of the...
This article considers a range of moral views about sexuality and menopause espoused both by doctora...
How has medicine contributed to shape bodies, from Antiquity to the present day? Can it be said that...
International audienceIn this paper I address the question of menopause in the French context as a s...
This article discusses the moment in which normative ideas about aging and reproductive embodiment b...
This article discusses the moment in which normative ideas about aging and reproductive embodiment b...
Research Framework: Long conducted in parallel, studies on life stages and gender have converged mor...
This PhD deals with menopause as a category and an experience. It aims to understand the mechanisms ...
This PhD deals with menopause as a category and an experience. It aims to understand the mechanisms ...
During the period contained between the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19...
My dissertation argues that various efforts to standardize the French language over the period 1538-...
This PhD deals with menopause as a category and an experience. It aims to understand the actors and ...
My dissertation argues that various efforts to standardize the French language over the period 1538-...