National Healths: Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context

ISBN-13: 9781844720170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 252 str.

Michael Worton; Nana Wilson-Tagoe

Opis

Gender Sexuality and Health in a Cross-C. This book focuses on a burning cultural issue: how concepts and constructions of gender and sexuality impact upon health, medicine and healthcare. Starting from the premise that health is neither a universal nor a unitary concept, it offers a series of interdisciplinary analyses of what sickness and well-being have been, are and can be.

Spis treści

Introduction, Michael Worton; chapterover Overview, Nana Wilson-Tagoe; Part 1 The Politics of Sickness and Health; Chapter 1 Female Genital Mutilation, Nahid Toubia; Chapter 2 Albanian Masculinities, Sex-Work and Migration, Nicola Mai; Chapter 3 The Semantics and Politics of Childbearing and Motherhood in Contemporary African Literature, Nana Wilson-Tagoe; Chapter 4 1This essay owes much to the research undertaken in the writing of Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (2003). Fuller versions of the arguments made here can be found in that volume., Philippa Levine; Chapter 5 Dangerous Blood, Margaret Healy; Part 2 The Representation of Sickness and Health; Chapter 6 Remembrance of Health Lost, James N Agar; Chapter 7 Vulnerable Margins, Lynda Morgan; Chapter 8 Sex in a Hot Climate, Rachel Harrison; Chapter 9 Some Fundamental Riddles of Cholera, George S Rousseau; Chapter 10 Behold the (Sick) Man, Michael Worton; Part 3 Learning from Sickness and Health; Chapter 11 Infectious Social Change, Audrey Prost; Chapter 12 1Grateful acknowledgment is due to the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, which supported the research for this chapter, and to Dr Li Jianmin, from whose help and advice I have benefited in countless ways., Shigehisa Kuriyama; Chapter 13 Reading Gender in Ancient Egyptian Healing Papyri, Stephen Quirke; Chapter 14 René and the ‘Mal du Siècle’, Caroline Warman; Chapter 15 Poetry, Pictures and the Sexual Demographics of Health, Deborah Kirklin;

O autorze

Worton, Michael; Wilson Tagoe,