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The Slow Moon Climbs
The Science, History, and Meaning of MenopauseBy Susan MatternNarrated by Jennifer Woodward
Length15h 55m
About this audiobook
This audiobook narrated by Jennifer Woodward provides the first comprehensive account of menopause from prehistory to today
Are the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Historian Susan Mattern says yes, and
The Slow Moon Climbs reveals just how wrong we have been. Taking readers from the rainforests of Paraguay to the streets of Tokyo, Mattern draws on historical, scientific, and cultural research to reveal how our perceptions of menopause developed from prehistory to today. For most of human history, people had no word for menopause and did not view it as a medical condition. Rather, in traditional foraging and agrarian societies, it was a transition to another important life stage. This book, then, introduces new ways of understanding life beyond fertility.
Mattern examines the fascinating "Grandmother Hypothesis"—which argues for the importance of elders in the rearing of future generations—as well as other evolutionary theories that have generated surprising insights about menopause and the place of older people in society. She looks at agricultural communities where households relied on postreproductive women for the family's survival. And she explores the emergence of menopause as a medical condition in the Western world. It was only around 1700 that people began to see menopause as a dangerous pathological disorder linked to upsetting symptoms that rendered women weak and vulnerable. Mattern argues that menopause was another syndrome, like hysterical suffocation or melancholia, that emerged or reemerged in early modern Europe in tandem with the rise of a professional medical class.
The Slow Moon Climbs casts menopause, at last, in the positive light it deserves—not only as an essential life stage, but also as a key factor in the history of human flourishing.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, History
Length15 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byJennifer Woodward
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 8, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Anno, Dedication, Prologue: The Grandmother of Us All
9Chapter 8 - The Modern World
2Part 1, Evolution, Chapter 1 - Why Menopause?
10Part 3, Culture, Chapter 9 - Women's Hell: Menopause and Modern Medicine
3Chapter 2 - "Thank You, Grandma, for Human Nature": The Grandmother Hypothesis
11Chapter 9 - Continued
4Chapter 3 - Putting the "Men" in Menopause: Male-Centered Theories of Human Evolution
12Chapter 10 - What Are You Talking About? Menopause in Traditional Societies
5Chapter 4 - Foragers Today: Hunting, Sharing, and Super-Uncles
13Chapter 11 - Symptoms
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6Part 2, History, Chapter 5 - Our Long Stone Age Past: How Grandmothers (Maybe) Conquered the World
14Chapter 12 - A Cultural Syndrome?
7Chapter 6 - The Age of Farmers: Patriarchy, Property, and Fertility Control
15Epilogue: Good-Bye to All That, Closing Anno
8Chapter 7 - Reproduction and Non-Reproduction in Some Agrarian Societies
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