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Women's Health, Politics, and Power - Essays on Sex/gender, Medicine, and Public Health

English · Hardback

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Provides specific analyses of women's health in relation to race/ethnicity and class, the work of health care, the health of women workers, international reproductive health, sexuality, AIDS, and public health policy.

List of contents

Introduction

SECTION I: WOMEN AND HEALTH: FRAMEWORKS Man-Made Medicine and Women's Health: The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity Nancy Krieger and Elizabeth Fee

Latina and African American Women: Continuing Disparities in Health Marsha Lillie-Blanton, Rose Marie Martinez, Andrea Kidd Taylor, and Betty Garman Robinson

Women, Health, and the Sexual Division of Labor: A Case Study of the Women's Health Movement in Britain Lesley Doyal

SECTION II: WOMEN AND THE WORK OF HEALTH CARE Gender Hierarchies in the Health Labor Force Irene H. Butter, Eugenia S. Carpenter, Bonnie J. Kay, and Ruth S. Simmons

Community Care Policies and Gender Justice Suzanne E. England, Sharon M. Keigher, Baila Miller, and Nathan L. Linsk

SECTION III: THE HEALTH OF WOMEN WORKERS Double Exposure: The Combined Impact of the Home and Work Environments on Psychosomatic Strain in Swedish Women and Men Ellen M. Hall The Interactive Effect of Health Status on Work Patterns among Urban Puerto Rican Women Ruth E. Zambrana and Marsha Hurst

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Health Effects of the Sexual Division of Labor among Train Cleaners Karen Messing, Ghislaine Doniol-Shaw, and Chantal Haëntjens

SECTION IV: WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: ASIA, AFRICA, AND LATIN AMERICA The Untold Story: How the Health Care Systems in Developing Countries Contribute to Maternal Mortality T.K. Sundari

Abortion Policy and Women's Health in Developing Countries Ruth Dixon-Mueller

SECTION V: SEXUALITY, WOMEN'S BODIES, AND WOMEN'S HEALTH Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause Emily Martin

A Critical Historical Analysis of the Medical Construction of Lesbianism Patricia E. Stevens and Joanne M. Hall

SECTION VI: WOMEN AND AIDS More than Mothers and Whores: Redefining the AIDS Prevention Needs of Women Kathryn Carovano

Women and AIDS in Zimbabwe: The Making of an Epidemic Mary T. Bassett and Marvellous Mhloyi

SECTION VII: GENDER, SOCIAL POLICY, AND WOMEN'S LIVES The Feminization of Poverty: Myth or Reality? Martha E. Gimenez

Women and Children at Risk: A Feminist Perspective on Child Abuse Evan Stark and Anne H. Flitcraft

Older Women in the Post-Reagan Era Terry Arendell and Carroll L. Estes

Contributors

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Elizabeth Fee (Edited by) , Nancy Krieger (Edited by)

Summary

Provides specific analyses of women's health in relation to race/ethnicity and class, the work of health care, the health of women workers, international reproductive health, sexuality, AIDS, and public health policy.

Product details

Authors Elizabeth Fee, Elizabeth Fee, Nancy Krieger
Assisted by Elizabeth Fee (Editor), Nancy Krieger (Editor)
Publisher Baywood Publishing Company Inc
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2022
 
EAN 9780895031204
ISBN 978-0-89503-120-4
No. of pages 382
Weight 680 g
Series Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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