Jones J
University of Tennessee College of Social Work.
Soc Work Health Care. 1994;19(3-4):43-65. doi: 10.1300/J010v19n03_03.
A culture's conception of gendered bodies is determined more by social constructions than by the nature of reality, and as such, reflects a specific historical, social, and political context. Constructions of women's bodies have changed throughout history but since the Enlightenment and, with it, the hegemony of science, they have been determined primarily by a biomedical perspective. This perspective results in a master medical narrative which reduced women's bodies, in general, to a biomedical reality; and their experience of menopause, specifically, to a biological event representing deterioration and decline. Analyzing the meaning that a research cohort of women make of their experience of menopause, I examine the ways in which their meaning conforms to and/or resists the medical narrative, as well as the new narratives which are created as alternatives. Implications for social workers in health care are addressed.
一种文化对性别化身体的观念更多地由社会建构所决定，而非现实本质，因此，它反映了特定的历史、社会和政治背景。女性身体的建构在历史上不断变化，但自启蒙运动以来，随着科学霸权的出现，它们主要由生物医学视角所决定。这种视角产生了一种主导的医学叙事，总体上把女性身体简化为生物医学现实；具体而言，把她们的更年期经历简化为代表衰退和下降的生物学事件。通过分析一组研究对象对更年期经历赋予的意义，我考察了她们的意义与医学叙事相符和/或相悖的方式，以及作为替代而产生的新叙事。文中还探讨了对医疗保健领域社会工作者的启示。
