Paul Komesaroff is a clinical endocrinologist and director at a center for the Study of Medicine, Society and Law. He is the author of Objectivity, Science and Society (Routledge, 1986) Philipa Rothfield and Jeanne Daly teach at Latrobe University. Daly is also the editor of Designs, Dilemmas and Disciplines (Routledge, 1992.)

• Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Mapping Menopause, Paul A. Komesaroff, Philipa Rothfield, Jeanne Daly; Part 2 Menopausal Bodies; Chapter 2 The Left Hand of the Goddess, Fiona Mackie; Chapter 3 Menopausal Embodiment, Philipa Rothfield; Chapter 4 Medicine and the Moral Space of the Menopausal Woman, Paul A. Komesaroff; Part 3 Politics of the Symbolic; Chapter 5 Revolting Women, Mia Campioni; Chapter 6 Resisting Pathologies of Age and Race, E. Ann Kaplan; Chapter 7 Gynopathia Sexualis, Robyn Gardner; Part 4 Discursive Strategies; Chapter 8 Facing Change, Jeanne Daly; Chapter 9 Menopause as Magic Marker, Margaret Morganroth Gullette; Chapter 10 Situating Menopause within the Strategies of Power, Roe Sybylla; Part 5 Metaphors and Mutations; Chapter 11 Sources of Abjection in Western Responses to Menopause, Wendy Rogers; Chapter 12 The Woman in the Menopausal Body, Emily Martin; Chapter 13 Menopause and the Great Divide, Kwok Wei Leng;