title: Women's status and experience of the menopause in a Newfoundland fishing village.
abstract: Recent studies attribute cross-cultural variations in the experience of the climacteric to changes in female status at middle age. An analysis of women's life cycles in a Newfoundland fishing village, where there is no dramatic change in status at middle age, contributes to the understanding of the dynamics of interaction between female and climacteric symptoms. Newfoundland concepts of bio-social self are examined in terms of folk notions of nerves and blood. Conclusions are drawn about the relative importance of somatic components, folk notions and female status in the experience of the climacteric.
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002979:Climacteric; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause; D008875:Middle Aged; D009523:Newfoundland and Labrador; D012649:Self Concept; D012930:Social Dominance; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*