Conflicting discourses, shifting ideologies: Pharmaceutical, 'alternative' and feminist emancipatory texts on the menopause

Discourse and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 419-445

  Coupland, Justine ^a   Williams, Angie ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative therapies; Control; Feminist emancipatory literature; Hormone replacement therapy (HRT); Interpretive resources; Menopause; Pharmaceutical brochures; Redefinition; Uncertainty; Women's subjectivities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037832470     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926502013004451     Document Type: Review

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