Menstruation and menstrual change: Women in midlife

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Abstract
Research on the menstrual cycle has paid scant attention to the experience of menstrual change among women during the years immediately prior to menopause. Using data taken from a cross‐sectional survey of Manitoba women in the 40–59 age group, this paper discusses the impact of changes in menstrual pattern on women's propensity to seek medical care and on their perception of their menopausal status. The difference between “subjective”; and “objective”; definitions of menopausal status is discussed in terms of the implications for the assignment of women to one category or another and in terms of conflict between methodological priorities and the new norms of feminist research.

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