Advertising menopause: you have been framed

Krajewski, Sabine

doi:10.1080/10304312.2018.1547364

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“…Furthermore, researchers found that adhering to the biomedical narrative negatively afects women's attitudes and lived experiences of menopause ( [35] provides a review), whereas resisting this narrative yields more positive outcomes [37,78]. For many women, the climacteric experience is marked by uncertainty and lack of knowledge [15,34,80], often in a context of stigma and taboo [22,60,75]. Upholding societal ideals of beauty and gender -by women themselves or by their loved ones-can impact women's sense of identity and relationship to their bodies [35], whose public appearance and behaviour are deemed 'uncontrollable' and 'abnormal' [23,33].…”

Section: Biomedical and Feminist Narratives Of Menopausementioning

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Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design

Felice

Søndergaard

Balaam

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The menopause transition involves bodily-rooted, socially-shaped changes, often in a context of medicalisation that marginalises people based on their age and gender. With the goal of addressing this social justice matter with a participatory design approach, we started to cultivate partnerships with people going through menopause. This paper reports on interviews with 12 women and a design workshop with three. Our data analysis highlights their experiences from a holistic perspective that reclaims the primacy of the body and acknowledges the entanglement of the physical and the psychosocial. Participants' design concepts show how design can come close the body to make space for menopause experiences, recognising and transforming them. We discuss how HCI can actively engage with the body to promote appreciation for it during menopause, and call for design that accompanies people in resisting the medicalisation of menopause as an enactment of social justice in everyday life. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Interaction design; Participatory design.

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Section: Biomedical and Feminist Narratives Of Menopausementioning

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Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design

Felice

Søndergaard

Balaam

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Malik (2008) reported that despite less understanding about menopause, when women viewed menopause as a normal life-event they did not experience medical problems. Such information should emphasize menopause as a normal developmental process and offer a complete and precise vision of it and the alternatives to alleviate its effects (Krajewski, 2019).…”

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“…Moreover, attitudes toward menopause may influence the way women experience symptoms and their perception of menopause (Hall et al, 2007). Especially when attitudes are negative, the risk of experiencing more symptoms increases, mainly psychological but vasomotor as well (Erbil, 2018), greater fatigue, emotional instability and depression (Ch avez et al, 2002;Krajewski, 2019).…”

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“…On the other hand, attitudes can change and improve depending on how women experience the menopause process (Hall et al, 2007;Krajewski, 2019). Bloch (2002) asserts that self-esteem and body-image have a greater influence on the perception of menopause than estrogen level because they directly influence women's attitudes about menopause (Drobnjak et al, 2014).…”

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“…In addition attitudes can be influenced by the kind of information provided about menopause, whether it is seen as an illness or as a natural physiological age-related change (Krajewski, 2019).…”

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Knowledge, attitudes and experiences of menopause among “early” and “on-time” women

Iñesta

Notari

Gfellner

2023

QAOA

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Purpose Attitudes, experiences and knowledge about menopause are relevant, especially when menopause starts earlier than expected. This study aims to examine women who underwent this transition “early” and “on-time” according to these factors. Design/methodology/approach The sample included 117 women, 69 with “on-time” and 48 with premature menopause. Participants completed three questionnaires. Findings Women with premature menopause had a better understanding of it but more negative attitudes and a higher incidence of physical and psychological symptoms, although they indicated greater feelings of control over their symptoms. Moreover, “early” menopause women appeared to exhibit greater anxiety. Practical implications Results underscore the need to inform women about menopause as a natural developmental process. Originality/value This paper shows the menopause as a difficult transition especially for women with early menopause.

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Students’ Representations of Menopause and Perimenopause: Out of Control Bodies and Empathetic Expert Doctors

Hayfield

Campbell

2022

Sex Roles

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Representations of peri/menopause are influential in relation to how peri/menopause is understood and how peri/menopausal women are perceived, both of which have important implications for health and wellbeing. In this paper, we report results from a story completion study with 102 undergraduate psychology students. Participants were invited to write a response to a fictional scenario about a peri/menopausal woman. Thematic analysis was used to construct two themes. In the first theme, Women’s bodies out of control, we report how students represented peri/menopausal women’s bodies as unpredictable and uncontrollable. In the second theme, Doctors as empathetic experts: A (biomedical) problem in need of (medical) intervention, we demonstrate how participants wrote stories that portrayed peri/menopause as a medical problem to be easily and effectively resolved by a doctor. These doctors were consistently characterized as empathetic and as experts of peri/menopause. We consider the extent to which these fictional stories might (or might not) map onto women’s lived experiences of peri/menopause by drawing on extant literature. Our results contribute to understandings of how young people represent peri/menopause and peri/menopausal women. These results have implications for educators in ensuring that menopause is included in their curricula, and for health professionals in their practice.

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Advertising menopause: you have been framed

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design

Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design

Knowledge, attitudes and experiences of menopause among “early” and “on-time” women

Students’ Representations of Menopause and Perimenopause: Out of Control Bodies and Empathetic Expert Doctors

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