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

ISBN-13: 9780333542057 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 292 str.

Lesley Doyal

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.