What Makes Women Sick - Gender and the Political Economy of Health

Lesley Doyal draws on a wide range of disciplines to highlight the limitations of medical models in understanding global patterns of health and disease in women. Examining in detail the impact of sexuality, fertility control, reproduction, domestic labour and waged work on women''s well-being, she shows how gender divisions in economic and social life affect their experiences of illness, disability and mortality. A concluding chapter illustrates the multiplicity of ways in which women around the world are challenging the threats to their health.>

List of contents

In Sickness and in Health Safe Sex?
Regulating Reproduction
A Labour of Love Hazards of Hearth and Home
Waged Work and Well-Being Abusing Women
Women's Movements for Health
The Global Politics of Women's Health.

About the author

Lesley Doyal

Product details

• Authors: Lesley Doyal
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.1995
• EAN: 9780333542057
• ISBN: 978-0-333-54205-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Gender and the Political Econo
• Subjects: Guides; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Miscellaneous; Politik und Staat, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Medical / Nursing