Jennifer Kelly
Jennifer Kelly has degrees in nursing, women's studies and education (adult) from Charles Darwin University and Deakin University, Australia. She is a registered nurse and midwife. She has worked for many years in the area of women's health in a variety of roles and locations throughout Australia. Her teaching and research experiences include nursing, midwifery health promotion, public health and women's studies. She lives with her partner in Townsville in north Queensland, Australia and works as a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at James Cook University, Townsville.
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Jennifer Kelly
Zest for Life draws on lesbians’ experiences of menopause to highlight how lesbians, particularly at midlife, are invisibilised in society at large. Many writers and researchers have critically analysed the medical construction of menopause, yet even they fail to ask whether the issues are the same for lesbians. Zest for Life includes the voices of lesbians who tell us that despite lesbian invisibility and homophobia, many are resisting current standards that exclude them. The experiences of these women challenge negative, stereotypical views of menopause and add a new positive dimension to the presently narrow and medicalised view of women at midlife. An important uplifting book both for lesbians and heterosexual women as well as health professionals which shows that menopause need not be a time of despair.
2005 | ISBN 9781876756468 | Paperback | 200 x 130 mm | 235 pages
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