{"id":397,"date":"2025-02-26T14:51:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/menopausing\/?page_id=397"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:36:59","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/menopausing\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"895\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/menopausing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/02\/publications_website.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/menopausing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/02\/publications_website.png 895w, https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/menopausing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/02\/publications_website-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/menopausing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/02\/publications_website-768x235.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 895px) 100vw, 895px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\t<div id=\"accordion-block_94c8b6a9b8a3d4846186933e61415398\" class=\"accordions\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-4644\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-4644\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDrysdale, K.; Burton-Clark, I. &amp; Moline, K. (2025): Reimagining menopause by expanding assumptions shaping research: a scoping review of gender and sexuality diverse people\u2019s experiences and expectations. International Journal of Transgender Health.\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-4644\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-4644\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Abstract<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Background<\/span><\/i><span data-ogsc=\"black\">:<b>\u00a0<\/b>Menopause is socially coded as an experience of hormonal change which threatens the vitality and identity of (cisgender) women in midlife; yet this framing overlooks the diversity in menopause experiences across age, gender and sexuality. The significance of these less visible experiences has led to calls to broaden the scope of menopause narratives and representations across research, policy, and practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ogsc=\"black\"><i>Methods<\/i>: Using an established scoping review methodology, we identified eleven articles that reported empirical research from the perspectives and\/or experiences of menopause among gender diverse people (which we widened to include sexuality diverse people where some analyses were equally relevant for gender diverse people).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ogsc=\"black\"><i>Results<\/i>: Three thematic categories were produced through our analysis, each implying a provocative expansion of assumptions about specific elements of the menopause experience, namely: timing of symptomology, gender and hormones, and sexuality and reproduction. Underpinning these findings is a pressing need for an alternative way of approaching menopause beyond its clinical characteristics, which, in turn, is carried over to the research that evidences these characteristics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ogsc=\"black\"><i>Conclusions<\/i>: The centering of accounts of menopause that assume cisgender and heterosexual women\u2019s experiences to be both normative and normal constrain other social (re)imaginings. We argue for more expansive understandings of menopause beyond this normative and clinical framing to consider the more fulsome breadth of socially situated experiences and perspectives that better serves the needs of gender diverse people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Link \/ DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/26895269.2024.2447785\">10.1080\/26895269.2024.2447785\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-8311\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-8311\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLukinmaa, P.; Ott, M.; &amp; Lulle, A. (2025). H\u00e4pe\u00e4st\u00e4 kohti moninaisia vaihdevuosia. Politiikasta.fi. \t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-8311\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-8311\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Julkinen keskustelu vaihdevuosista on murroksessa. Vaihdevuosien vallankumouksellinen potentiaalin vapauttaminen vaatii asennemuutosta ja kielellist\u00e4 k\u00e4\u00e4nnett\u00e4.<\/p>\n<p>Lue koko Politiikasta-tiedeverkkolehdess\u00e4 julkaistu puheenvuoro klikkaamalla <a href=\"https:\/\/politiikasta.fi\/hapeasta-kohti-moninaisia-vaihdevuosia\/\">t\u00e4st\u00e4<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-6826\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-6826\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLulle, A. (2024): Midlife Geographies. Changing Lifecourses across Generations, Spaces and Time. Bristol University Press.\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-6826\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-6826\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-398 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/menopausing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/02\/9781529228878-1379954-800x600-1-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/menopausing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/02\/9781529228878-1379954-800x600-1-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/menopausing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/02\/9781529228878-1379954-800x600-1.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the 21st century, global demographics are rapidly changing, with a higher population of m<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">iddle-aged people than ever before. As the \u2018sandwich\u2019 generation, people in midlife often experience significant work and intergenerational caring responsibilities, yet they are the subject of relatively little research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This short, a<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">ccessible book redresses the balance in offering a geographical approach to how people embody and claim space in midlife while analysing the influences of gender, class a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">nd location. The author considers midlife in varying sociocultural and geographical contexts, viewed through the lens of the global neoliberal shift.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em>Stunningly original and also deeply personal, Aija Lulle\u2019s feminist-inspired exploration of the geographies of the midlife generation, interposed bet<\/em><em>ween youth and older-age, opens up new perspectives on global demography.<\/em>\u201d Russell King, University of Sussex<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u201c<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">This engaging and highly readable book provides important insights into midlife from citizens of the UK, Finland and Latvia.<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u201d Irene Hardill,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0Northumbria University<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/bristoluniversitypress.co.uk\/midlife-geographies\">Bristol University Press | Midlife Geographies &#8211; Changing Lifecourses across Generations, Spaces and Time, By Aija Lulle<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-9778\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-9778\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMoline, K. &amp; Clerke, T. (2023): Design research for menopause: a scoping review. Design for Health.\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-9778\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-9778\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Abstract<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph -->More than half the global population experience menopause, of which a significant number are in part-time or full-time employment. Research on labour force participation reports that employment is often interrupted during the menopausal transition due to difficulties accessing timely medical support and social discrimination. These interruptions result in the loss of professional expertise for employers and financial security for employees. To identify the characteristics of and gaps in design research for menopause we conducted a scoping review of the literature. We sourced and analysed 24 articles, mapping them according to their alignment with three conceptual framings of menopause from the sociology of medicine; a medicalized condition requiring pharmacological treatment, a natural life stage that is managed with complementary therapies, and a demedicalized issue where illness and health are framed as always socially situated. We found that the articles on menopause were relatively evenly distributed across the medicalized and demedicalized framings, with fewer developed within a natural framing. Our findings offer design researchers an overview of frameworks that are commonly used in health research and that we see as productive for further multidisciplinary research collaborations for menopause, and for research concerning the intersections of gender, sexualities, ageing and health more broadly.<\/p>\n<p>Link \/ DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/24735132.2023.2265714\">10.1080\/24735132.2023.2265714\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-6338\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-6338\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tO&#039;Hearn, S. 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