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Culture and the climacteric

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Marcha P. Flint  and
Margarita Garcia
Marcha P. Flint
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Montclair State College, New Jersey, USA
Margarita Garcia
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Hispanic Research Center, Fordham University, New York, USA
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Summary

Two American ethnic (sub-cultural) groups of Cuban and Jewish women of comparable socio-economic status were studied in New Jersey, USA in order to show how each of their cultures influences the climacteric. A wide spectrum of cultural variables, associated with each of these ethnic groups, was obtained through a questionnaire about self-image, reproductive history, attitudes toward the menopause, climacteric symptoms, the role of the physician during the climacteric and behaviour, attitudes and feelings about sex. A further differentiation of these variables, associated with each specific ethnic group, yielded an ethnic profile from which ethnic group membership could be predicted.

Type
IV. Social aspects of late fertility
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 11 , supplement S6: Fertility in Middle Age , 1979 , pp. 197 - 215
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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