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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 12 NUMBER 1 SPECIAL ISSUE: Women at Midlife and Beyond Editorial / yp THE CHANGE-OF-LIFE: ANTICIPATIONS, ATTITUDES, AND EXPERIENCES AMONG MIDDLE-AGED DANISH WOMEN / Anne Késter / I SELF-CARE AND MENOPAUSE: CRITICAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH / Beverly J. McElmurry and Donna S. Huddleston / 15 THE MEANINGS OF MENOPAUSE / Patricia J. Estok and Richard O’Toole / 27 THE MEANING OF TIME: MOHAWK WOMEN AT MIDLIFE / Madeleine M. Buck and Laurie N. Gottlieb / 4] THE THEORY OF REASONED ACTION IN PREDICTION OF BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION: A COMPARISON OF TWO STUDIES / Gail M. Powell-Cope, Letha M. Lierman, Danuta Kasprzyk, Heather M. Young, and Jeanne Q. Benoliel / 51 COMPARING METHODS OF REPORTING BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION COMPLIANCE / Betsy J. Lavine and B. Jo Hailey / 63 IDENTIFYING WOMEN’S DESCRIPTIONS OF BREAST TISSUE FOR THE PROMOTION OF BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION / Dianne Lauver and Colleen Keenan / 73 STRESS, EMOTIONS, AND COPING: A STUDY OF ELDERLY WOMEN WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS / Barbara Downe-Wamboldt / 85 LIFE SATISFACTION IN WOMEN WITH POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS OF THE SPINE / Janice C. Hallal / 99 BURDEN OF CARE: AN IMPORTANT CONCEPT FOR NURSES / Gail O’Neill and Margaret M. Ross / II] SPOUSAL CAREGIVING IN LATER LIFE: AN OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE CAREER / Margaret M. Ross / 123 EMILY: A STUDY OF GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT / Brighid Kelly / 137 Communication Networks / 149 NUMBER 2 Editorial / vy TIME DEMANDS AND MEDICAL ETHICS IN WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE / Candace C. Gauthier and Eleanor Krassen-Maxwell / 153 AMNIOCENTESIS IN THE CONTEXT OF INFERTILITY / Margarete Sandelowski, Betty G. Harris, and Diane Holditch-Davis / 167 INFERTILITY: WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES / Nancy Fugate Woods, Ellen Olshansky, and Mary Ann Draye / 179 COPING WITH A DIFFICULT-TO-DIAGNOSE ILLNESS: THE EXAMPLE OF INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS / Claire Burke Draucker / 19] SELF-CARE PRACTICES OF WOMEN WITH URINARY INCONTINENCE—A PRELIMINARY STUDY / Linda Wilson Klemm and Nancy S. Creason / 199 THE PROMOTION AND MEASUREMENT OF HEALTHY COPING / Laurie Carty / 21] TO LOSE, TO MAINTAIN, TO IGNORE: WEIGHT MANAGEMENT AMONG WOMEN / Janet Davidson Allan / 223 BODY-FAT MEASUREMENTS AND ATHLETIC MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY / Patricia J. Estok, Ellen B. Rudy, and Jean A. Just / 237 PERINATAL CARE: THE KURANKO CONTEXT OF CHOICE / Jane Swanson Ross / 249 BELIEFS, PRACTICES, AND EXPERIENCES OF KOREAN WOMEN IN RELATION TO CHILDBIRTH / Kee-Joung Yoo Park and Leona M. | Peterson / 261 tin PREFERENCE FOR MALE CHILDREN AND CONTRACEPTIVE USE IN TAIWAN / Rosemary Wang and Dona J. Lethbridge / 271] Communication Networks / 28] -_—- __— -<-—- - NUMBER 3 Editorial / v THE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN WHO FACE ABORTIONS / Vered ee“_ e ee Slonim-Nevo / 283 | PAIN AND DISTRESS DURING ABORTION / Nancy Wells / 293 RETROSPECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF PREMENSTRUAL CHANGES IN ICELANDIC WOMEN / Herdis Sveinsdottir and Gudrin Marteinsdottir / 303 mSoacemsdee: INFERTILE COUPLES’ PERCEPTIONS OF INFERTILITY SUPPORT-GROUP PARTICIPATION / Eleanor Lentner and Greer Glazer / 317 WALKING THE LINE BETWEEN FEMINISM AND INFERTILITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING, MEDICINE, AND PATIENT CARE / Julie C. Shattuck and Katherine K. Schwarz / 331] RECOVERY FROM CHILDBIRTH: LOOKING BACK 6 MONTHS AFTER DELIVERY / Lorraine Tulman and Jacqueline Fawcett / 34] COMPUTER HAZARDS: REAL OR IMAGINARY? / Richard Cardinali / 35] Communication Networks / 359 NUMBER 4 Guest Editorial / Erihapeti Murchie / 359 BETWEEN TWO CULTURES: IDENTITY, ROLES AND HEALTH / AfafI. Meleis / 365 WOMEN AND POWER: HOW CAN WE CHANGE THE SYSTEM? / Phillida Bunkle / 379 WOMEN AS BODY PARTS IN THE ERA OF REPRODUCTIVE AND GENETIC ENGINEERING / Renate Klein / 393 THE MAORIS OF NEW ZEALAND: A HISTORICAL VIEW OF CULTURE AND FAMILY / Hazel N. Brown / 407 FUNDAMENTAL AND SITUATIONAL COMPONENTS IN A STRATEGY FOR ATTAINING A POSITIVE PATIENT EXPERIENCE OF THE PELVIC EXAMINATION: A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH / Henny M. Olsson and Mats T. Gullberg / 415 PATTERNS OF CONTRACEPTIVE USE AMONG URBAN WOMEN IN TAIWAN / Dona J. Lethbridge and Rosemary Wang / 431 PROBLEMS OF AGING: URINARY INCONTINENCE PREVENTION / Betty D. Pearson and Dorothy Droessler / 443 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN / Elisabeth Reichert / 45] COMPARISON OF GENDER AND VICTIM RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE IN POPULAR MOVIES / Deborah M. Firman / 457 WOMEN’S REASONS FOR LEAVING ABUSIVE SPOUSES / Yvonne Campbell Ulrich / 465 Following page 474: Title Page of Volume 12 Contents of Volume 12 Author Index to Volume 12 Subject Index to Volume 12