| Popis: |
Asking women to draw menopause began as an interesting adjunct to a larger research study examining understandings of menopause. The author was specifically interested in exploring how the notion of menopause as hormone deficiency came to be established and how it continues to be so staunchly reinforced today. Menopause clinics function as specialist sites often within, or associated with, large tertiary hospitals. The majority of women were attending a menopause clinic to seek help for menopause-related problems. This may seem an obvious statement but it conceals the complexity and uncertainty of problems that many women experience at this stage of their lives. In asking women to draw menopause the author was interested in how they understood menopause, particularly in relation to their management practices. The drawings revealed the multiplicities of women’s menopause. The choice of colour in the representations of menopause was important for the women participating. |
