Research Catalog

Title

Women's health, politics, and power : essays on sex/gender, medicine, and public health / editors, Elizabeth Fee and Nancy Krieger.

Publication

Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fee, Elizabeth.
• Krieger, Nancy.

Description

v, 376 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Policy, politics, health, and medicine series

Uniform Title

Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered)

Subject

• Women's health services > Political aspects
• Women's health services > Social aspects
• Women > Health and hygiene > Social aspects
• Women > Health and hygiene > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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 : coninuing disparities in health / Marsha Lillie-Blanton ... [et al.] -- Women, health, and the sexual division of labor : a case study of the women's health movement in Britain / Lesley Doyal -- Women and the work of health care. Gender hierarchies in the health labor force / Irene H. Butter ... [et al.].
• Community care policies and gender justice / Suzanne E. England ... [et al.] -- 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.
• 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 -- 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.
• 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 -- 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.

Call Number

JFE 96-11232

ISBN

• 0895031205 (cloth)
• 0895031213 (pbk.)

LCCN

94000042

OCLC

29702339

Title

Women's health, politics, and power : essays on sex/gender, medicine, and public health / editors, Elizabeth Fee and Nancy Krieger.

Imprint

Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., c1994.

Series

Policy, politics, health, and medicine series

Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Fee, Elizabeth.

Krieger, Nancy.

Research Call Number

JFE 96-11232