{"product_id":"ecocritical-menopause-9781666964585","title":"Ecocritical Menopause","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcocritical Menopause: Women, Literature, Environment, The Change\u003c\/i\u003e is the first volume of its kind to bring together cross-sectional ecofeminist voices privileging women's menopausal positionality within literary works. This collection reexamines menopause across the disciplinary fields of ecofeminism and ecocriticism as clearly the most neglected phase of the menstrual cycle and aims to develop a critical discourse in counterpoint to the persistent cultural and critical legacies that sustain underrating women in midlife. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn highlighting selected literary representations of female being in transition, this volume includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Exploration of the core motifs mediating the fashioning of menopausal women, including biology, the body, body shaming, climacterium, hysteria, the crone\/hag figure, femininity, gender, identity, reproduction, sexlessness and asexuality \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Reexamination of histo-cultural biases that continue to perpetuate a devaluation of women after menopause, such as ageism, degeneration, loss of fertility and myths of essentialism, patriarchy and hegemony, social taboos, the medicalization of menopause, and cultural menophobia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Analysis of literature genres in which we find portraitures of peri\/post\/menopause subjectivity, such as autofiction, crime fiction, detective fiction, folktales, frame tale, fiction, mystery, poetry, short story, and the whodonit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042051981655,"sku":"9781666964585","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666964585.jpg?v=1750952808","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ecocritical-menopause-9781666964585","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}