Menopause & perimenopause

Menopause across cultures — References & further reading

References

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Melby, M., et al. 2005. Culture and symptom reporting at menopause. Human Reproduction Update, 11 (5), 495–512. URL (full text): http://humupd.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/11/5/495 (accessed 07.13.2007).

Melby, M. 2005. Vasomotor symptom prevalence and language of menopause in Japan. Menopause, 12 (3), 250–257. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15879913

² Martin, M., et al. 1993. Menopause without symptoms: The endocrinology of menopause among rural Mayan Indians. Am. J. Obstet. Gyn., 168 (6), 1839–1843. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8317530 (accessed 07.13.2007).

³ Stewart, D. 2003. Menopause in highland Guatemala Mayan women. Maturitas, 44 (4), 293–297. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12697370 (accessed 07.13.2007).

⁴ Michel, J., et al. 2006. Symptoms, attitudes and treatment choices surrounding menopause among the Q&rsquoeqchi Maya of Livingston, Guatemala. Soc. Sci. Med., 63 (3), 732–742. URL: (full text): http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16580764 (accessed 01.26.2008).

⁵ West, M. Celebrating the change. URL: http://www.melissagaylewest.com/articles_celebrating.htm (accessed 07.13.2007).

⁶ Hawkes, K. 2003. Grandmothers and the evolution of human longevity. Am. J. Hum. Biol., 15 (3), 380–400. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12704714 (accessed 07.13.2007).

Hawkes, K., et al. 1998. Grandmothering, menopause, and the evolution of human life histories. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 95, 1–4. URL (full text): http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/95/3/1336 (accessed 01.26.2008).

Hawkes, K., et al. 1997. Hadza women’s time allocation, offspring provisioning, and the evolution of long postmenopausal life spans. Current Anthropology, 38 (4), 551–577. URL (first page): http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0011-3204%28199708%2F10%2938%3A4%3C551
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See also:

Alvarez, H. 2000. Grandmother hypothesis and primate life histories. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol., 113 (3), 435–450. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11042542 (accessed 07.13.2007).

Jamison, C., et al. 2002. 12209574 Are all grandmothers equal? A review and a preliminary test of the “grandmother hypothesis” in Tokugawa Japan. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol., 199 (1), 67–76. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12209574 (accessed 07.13.2007).

Jared, D. 1996. Why women change. Discover, July. URL: http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/origins/women_change.html (accessed 07.13.2007).

Wikipedia. 2007. The grandmother hypothesis. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis (accessed 07.13.2007).

⁷ Angier, N. 1999. Woman: An intimate geography. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 217.

⁸ Kerns, V., & Brown, J., 1992. In her prime: New views of middle-aged women. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 12.

⁹ Khademi, S., & Cooke, M. 2003. Comparing the attitudes of urban and rural Iranian women toward menopause. Maturitas, 46 (2), 113–121. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14559382 (accessed 08.02.2007).

¹⁰ Avis, N., et al. 2005. A universal menopausal syndrome? Am. J. Med., 118(Suppl 12B), 37–46. URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16414325 (accessed 07.13.2007).