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Reproductive Issues, Including Menopause

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Women in Midlife

Part of the book series: Women in Context: Development and Stresses ((WICO))

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Scientific and clinical knowledge about the psychology of female reproduction has expanded rapidly over the past 15 years. Not only is there more research on the psychology of menstruation, pregnancy, birth, and menopause, it is better: more grounded in empirical data and more reflective of the complexity of the phenomena.1

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  1. Center for the Study of Women and Society, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, New York, 10036, USA

    Mary Brown Parlee

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  1. Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA

    Grace Baruch

  2. Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

    Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

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Parlee, M.B. (1984). Reproductive Issues, Including Menopause. In: Baruch, G., Brooks-Gunn, J. (eds) Women in Midlife. Women in Context: Development and Stresses. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7823-5_14

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