Overview
- brings together gender and sexuality studies in the Middle East with aging studies
- analyzes narrative life stories of Iranian Muslim women
- turns away from biomedical frameworks to considers the social, political, and cultural dimensions of menopause
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--Professor Maggie O'Neill (MRIA, FAcSS, FRSA), Director Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century ISS21 and Director UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures, University College Cork
“Elham Amini has written an important book that shines light on the lives of Iranian menopausal women, in beautiful and emotional detail. Most significantly, this book creates and holds space: spacefor the innovative synthesis of diverse theories and rich qualitative data; space for the reader to bear witness and gain understanding of the experiences of life in Iran for older women; and space for these women to think, reflect, and speak their truths about the most private aspects of their lives. These spaces make for a profound book, with important insights into gender and sexuality, the life course, structure and agency, and other enduring sociological questions”--Professor Mark McCormack, Professor of Sociology, Centre Director, Equality, Justice and Social Change Centre, University of Roehampton
“This is a beautifully written and highly engaging study of Iranian Muslim women’s menopause experience. Drawing on theoretical frameworks derived from Raewynn Connell and Nick Crossley in particular, and situating menopause in the biographical context of women’s sexual and reproductive life course, Amini deftly interweaves theory and rich empirical data fromthis extremely hard-to-reach community. She presents menopause as a key transitional point in women’s lives in which they can respond reflexively and agentically to instate identity transformation. In so doing, Amini’s research shatters the western stereotypes of such women as victims, as passive and/or inactive in the face of patriarchal power and reveals the subtle yet powerful ways in which they challenge the hegemony of silence under which their sexual lives have been lived until this point in order to author their own lives as (ageing) women.”
--Professor Susan Pickard, Professor of Sociology, Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of LiverpoolAuthors and Affiliations
About the author
Elham Amini is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her work focuses on the gendered and sexual experiences of menopausal women, and her research interests include medical sociology, ageing, sexualities, and women's health.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Menopause in Iranian Muslim Women
Book Subtitle: Gendered and Sexual Experiences of Menopausal Women
Authors: Elham Amini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44713-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44712-9Published: 30 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44715-0Due: 31 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44713-6Published: 29 November 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 247
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Sociology of the Body, Cultural Studies, Social Philosophy, Demography, Demography