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This Introduction explains how the book cohered within a larger intercultural project and its methodological frameworks that draw upon Reinhart Koselleck’s notion of temporal layers in the history of concepts and upon Michel Foucault’s notion of history of the present. It explains why the massively greater magnitude of French medical scholarship on menopause during the long nineteenth century relative to other cultures of this same period has been largely overlooked in existing historiographies of menopause. It situates the book in relation to other historical work on menopause, in relation to scholarship in other disciplines such as in current biomedicine, anthropology, and sociology, and in relation to recent popular and media discourses. Section headings: • Why France? • Methodological Questions |
