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Negotiating Normal and Optimal: Women's Experiences Managing Hormones Across the Life Course
Negotiating Normal and Optimal: Women's Experiences Managing Hormones Across the Life Course
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104726
- ISBN
- 9798293890231
- DDC
- 301
- 저자명
- Kaplan, Golda.
- 서명/저자
- Negotiating Normal and Optimal: Womens Experiences Managing Hormones Across the Life Course
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : New York University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 146 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Cowan, Sarah K.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Most of our time is spent managing changes in our bodies that are uncomfortable, painful, or inconvenient, but likely do not comprise an illness. Sociologists have not fully examined what structures how people navigate this murkier category of body management, more often focusing on the social factors that shape how people define and respond to illness or the social pressures that encourage body work for aesthetic purposes.In this dissertation, I examine how people identify and respond to these sorts of health and body problems- the ones that are not necessarily surprising but also not necessarily welcome. Specifically, I examine how cisgender women come to understand something to be wrong with their hormones, and how they respond to this realization. Hormones are central to several bodily processes that hold significant social and cultural meaning including puberty, reproduction, and aging, yet the social contexts, debates, and motivation for managing and manipulating hormones varies greatly across them.Drawing on data from 60 in-depth interviews with cisgender women of varied ages across the United States, I find women negotiate between three reference points for determining whether pain, discomfort, or symptoms associated with their hormones is problematic, and if so, how to best address this problem. The first reference point is what women see as normal for others, or within the range of normalcy at a societal or population level. The second reference point is women's sense of what is normal for themselves, drawing on their own personal experiences and knowledge of their body. The third reference point is bodily function that would be optimal. While perhaps counterintuitive, and counter to theories in medical sociology, achieving optimization is not necessarily always actionable or desirable.I illustrate how interactions between these three reference points inform what women expect and accept from their bodies across three empirical chapters. In chapter one, I look at how women come to explain what is occurring in their bodies as the result of hormonal imbalance, examining how they negotiate between what they have come to understand as normal for them and normal for others in determining whether additional intervention or explanation is needed for symptoms they are experiencing. In chapter two, I examine how women conceptualize the relationship between the use of synthetic hormones and their ability to know and be their authentic selves. In chapter three, I explore how what is considered socially acceptable bodily discomfort can shape the types of solutions women draw on for managing symptoms they or others attribute to their hormones.Taken together, this dissertation argues that what drives how women manage and respond to their hormones is variation in the types of pain, discomfort, and symptoms they consider to be normal throughout their life. Understanding the social patterning of this middle ground of expected yet uncomfortable symptoms is increasingly relevant as who is considered a health expert, what constitutes a health problem, and the options available for how a person might respond, continues to expand.
- 일반주제명
- Sociology
- 일반주제명
- LGBTQ studies
- 일반주제명
- Personality psychology
- 일반주제명
- Womens studies
- 키워드
- Body management
- 키워드
- Hormones
- 키워드
- Sociologists
- 키워드
- Cisgender women
- 기타저자
- New York University Sociology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0146.
■650 4▼aSociology
■650 4▼aLGBTQ studies
■650 4▼aPersonality psychology
■650 4▼aWomens studies
■653 ▼aBody management
■653 ▼aHormones
■653 ▼aSociologists
■653 ▼aCisgender women
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■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17358614▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
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