Probabilities and Kōnenki
Probabilities and Kōnenki
The complexity of the narratives given by Japanese women only rarely results from minds unschooled in human biology. What they reveal, on the contrary, is women's unwillingness to reduce the meaning of the end of menstruation to endocrine changes alone. By far, the majority of Japanese women make it clear that for them kōnenki represents, above all, an inevitable part of the aging process. They focus on the signs of aging of which the end of menstruation is but one. kōnenki is an entirely natural event that may produce some temporary discomfort, but one that is of little concern to many women. Despite the negative myths about kōnenki, most women suffer no disabling symptoms and apparently feel no deep sense of loss at this time of life.
Keywords: Japanese women, human biology, menstruation, aging, kōnenki
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