Killer Whales and Killer Women: Exploring Menopause as a ‘Satellite Taboo’ that Orbits Madness and Old Age

Krajewski, Sabine

doi:10.1007/s12119-018-9578-3

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“…The can opener. Later in life, the “hot flash” produces the “menopausal woman,” crazed and flushed with ruined sexuality, her nightgown soaked through with sweat and rage (Krajewski 2019; Lock 1994). The end of a woman’s fertility thus becomes an echo of the peak of it: the mad (grand)mother, no longer birthing babies, but, in the loss of her ability to do so, once more becoming mad in flashes.…”

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Blenders, Hammers, and Knives: Postpartum Intrusive Thoughts and Unthinkable Motherhood

Mason

2022

Anthropology and Humanism

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Intrusive thoughts" are common symptoms of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders such as postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder. These thoughts can include horrific flashes of violence involving one's baby and frequently lead to shame and fear on the mother's part, but rarely result in real-world violence. Clinicians tend to downplay the importance of these images' content and calm women by reminding them that they will not act on their impulses. This article leans into the dark nature of intrusive thoughts. I intersperse theoretical and ethnographic reflections with vivid fragments of narratives about intrusive thoughts collected from several years of ethnographic research conducted with postpartum women in the United States. I explore the fear, rage, and repulsion that characterize the thoughts themselves and the racism, classism, and sexism involved in clinical, institutional, and interpersonal responses to them. I suggest that dwelling on the "unthinkable" images contained within intrusive thoughts may be important for understanding and accepting the realities of mother love. [intrusive thoughts, motherhood, postpartum, obsessive-compulsive disorder, mother love] The BlenderA woman enters the kitchen warily, a three-week-old bundle in her arms. The bundle is asleep, but the woman knows that might not last. She creeps over the threshold, the linoleum cold under her bare feet. She will be fast. The cup of water is right there. She will just creep in and grab it before anything can happen. But there are so many weapons here. The blender-the baby would fit in. Just squish him in, push down the head, and he'd be just the right size. Press on and … NO. Grab the water. The water is next to the sink, which is next to the knives. His neck is so thin, so delicate, the knife would go right through his skin, like slicing a nectarine-NO. She grabs the water, dashes out, tripping and stubbing her toe. She cries out. The baby stirs but does not wake. "Did you hear what I told you?" she is telling me. She would reach through the phone if she could, shake me, to make me understand. "I said I thought about putting my baby in the blender."

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Blenders, Hammers, and Knives: Postpartum Intrusive Thoughts and Unthinkable Motherhood

Mason

2022

Anthropology and Humanism

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Changes in ageing women’s sexual subjectivity as seen from a life course perspective: security, caring, and desire

Temkina,

Shpakovskaya,

Lavie-Ajayi

et al. 2024

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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The Symbolic Interactionism Theory: A Systematic Literature Review of Current Research

Rahman

Mukhtar

2021

IJMTSS

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The objective of this paper is to explore the current trend of using symbolic interactionism as an underpinning theory by revealing the gaps in the elements of the theory, methodology, and suggesting the direction for future research. This communication theory is unique because of the elements; self, society, and the environment. Normally, symbolic interactionism theory (SIT) has been used in identity and healthcare studies. While studies using this theory in entrepreneurship are still lacking. It is shown that this study mostly focuses on the sociology perspective compared to the social-psychology perspective. Therefore, this paper was adopted with a thematic analysis of 116 articles using symbolic interactionism as a theoretical underpinning. The findings show previous research that utilised symbolic interactionism in entrepreneurship is still less. This study found that previous studies have focused more on "Looking-Glass-self" by Goffman compared to the overall perspective of self-society-environment and lack of studies focusing on the entrepreneurship field. This systematic review is expected to give understanding and knowledge to readers about SIT, theory gaps through the elements, and directions for future research to consider using symbolic interactionism as a theoretical underpinning in the entrepreneurial phenomenon.

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Killer Whales and Killer Women: Exploring Menopause as a ‘Satellite Taboo’ that Orbits Madness and Old Age

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

Blenders, Hammers, and Knives: Postpartum Intrusive Thoughts and Unthinkable Motherhood

Blenders, Hammers, and Knives: Postpartum Intrusive Thoughts and Unthinkable Motherhood

Changes in ageing women’s sexual subjectivity as seen from a life course perspective: security, caring, and desire

The Symbolic Interactionism Theory: A Systematic Literature Review of Current Research

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