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Negotiating Normal and Optimal: Women's Experiences Managing Hormones Across the Life Course
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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  
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