Living Menopause: Rhetorics, Tensions, and Futures - Hardcover

Hertogh, Lori Beth De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1666980307 ISBN 13: 9781666980301

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026

Synopsis

Blending rhetorical analysis, qualitative research, and lived experience, Living Menopause: Rhetorics, Tensions, and Futures explores the forces that have long framed menopause as a problem to solve, a decline to fear, and a market to exploit. Against this backdrop, the authors craft expansive, agency-affirming futures for living with/and/through menopause. Across six chapters, the authors trace how menopause circulates through medical research, workplace expectations, caregiving pressures, health applications, and popular media. They show how decades of medicalization, beauty culture, and binary thinking through various “menobooms” have constrained what menopause can mean—and what women are allowed to feel, choose, or imagine during this transition. Living Menopause invites scholars and practitioners to join a conversation already underway—one that challenges stigma, expands agency, and opens new futures for how we understand and experience menopause. Ultimately, this book encourages readers to continue to critique and think outside current menopause discourse en route to imagining, constructing, and demanding new stories around the menopause experience.

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About the Authors

Lori Beth De Hertogh is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the School of Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication at James Madison University, USA.

Ann E. Green is Professor of English and Writing at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, USA.

Cristina Hanganu-Bresch is Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, USA.

Laura R. Micciche is Professor of English and area director of the rhetoric and composition graduate program at the University of Cincinnati, USA.

Cathryn Molloy is Professor of Writing Studies in the English department at the University of Delaware, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666980307
• ISBN 13: 9781666980301
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 194