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Is Menopause a Health Risk for Bengali Women

Researches suggest that people's perception about menopause largely depends on the inherent sociocultural context. In some of the developed countries of the west, menopause is viewed pessimistically. So, the understanding of this reproductive phase as a health risk and the approach to medicalise it are more pronounced in these countries. Some studies show that presently, to certain extent, people from developing countries are espousing menopause in a similar way like the west. The present study aims to understand the knowledge, attitude and perception of urban middle class women of West Ben- gal (India) toward menopause. The data have been collected on post menopausal women from their lived experience. The result shows that women of this study group are not much concerned with menopause and menopausal problems and do not perceive this reproductive episode of their life as health risk. It seems that the sociocultural perspective of the Bengali middle class epitomize menopause as uneventful. Thus, it appears that the agenda of promoting menopause as a medical model, has probably failed to penetrate the life of Bengali middle class community.