Women's Health, Politics, and Power : Essays on Sex/Gender, Medicine, and Public Health /: Essays on Sex/Gender, Medicine, and Public Health. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elizabeth Fee, Nancy Krieger.
• Editors: Fee, Elizabeth; Krieger, Nancy
• 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (376 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351863810; 1351863819
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