Manufacturing heterosexuality
Hormone replacement therapy and menopause in urban Oaxaca
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15098149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Ramirez (0000-0002-8888-7720, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 545-558 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13691050600891909 |
| PMID | 17050385 |
| OpenAlex | W2025836814 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 45 |
For several decades, hormone replacement therapies have been prescribed to women, not only to prevent disease but to improve the sexual functioning of menopausal women. The medical promotion of continued sexual activity in a woman's post-reproductive years is exported to locations outside of North America and Europe, which provides an opportunity to critically examine the cultural roots that have informed expert biomedical representations. This ethnographic study examined menopause and social class in Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico using interviews, questionnaires, and textual analysis. The research found that biomedicine in conjunction with the pharmaceutical industry promoted culturally constructed gender hierarchies under the guise of optimal menopausal health. However, women's actual experience of gender and sexuality in mid-life diverged significantly from these expert representations. Themes that emerged in interviews and questionnaires included the importance of motherhood in old age, diminished sexual desire as not problematic, and greater sexual freedom at a post-reproductive age. Ultimately, biomedical discourse was not the sole arbiter of appropriate menopausal womanhood and femininity
Gynecology · Heterosexuality · Hormone replacement therapy (female-to-male · Human sexuality · Menopause · Sociology · Testosterone (patch · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Sex and Gender in Healthcare · Endocrinology
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The woman in the body
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Supermadre
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Social Inequality in Oaxaca
Gender, Body, Biomedicine
Menopause and the Transmission of Women's Knowledge
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |