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Pragmatic women and body politics

Title
Pragmatic women and body politics / edited by Margaret Lock, Patricia A. Kaufert.
Publication
New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Lock, Margaret M.
  • Kaufert, Patricia A. (Patricia Alice)
Description
xii, 364 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; 5
Uniform Title
Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; 5.
Subject
  • Women > Health and hygiene
  • Women's health services
  • Women > Social conditions
  • Medical technology > Social aspects
  • Human reproductive technology > Social aspects
  • Medical anthropology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 1. Introduction / Margaret Lock and Patricia A. Kaufert -- 2. Remembering Amal: on birth and the British in northern Sudan / Janice Boddy -- 3. Resistance and embrace: Sudanese rural women and systems of power / Ellen Gruenbaum -- 4. Not only women: science as resistance in open door Egypt / Soheir A. Morsy -- 5. Inscribing the body politic: women and AIDS in Africa / Brooke Grundfest Schoeff -- 6. Barren ground: contesting identities of infertile women in Pemba, Tanzania / Karina Kielmann -- 7. Wives, mothers, and lesbians: rethinking resistance in the US / Ellen Lewin -- 8. The consequences of modernity for childless women in China: medicalization and resistance / Lisa Handwerker -- 9. Perfecting society: reproductive technologies, genetic testing, and the planned family in Japan / Margaret Lock -- 10. An ethnography of the medicalization of Puerto Rican women's reproduction / Iris Lopez --
  • 11. Situating resistance in fields of resistance: Aboriginal women and environmentalism / John D. O'Neil, Brenda D. Elias and Annalee Yassi -- 12. Women, resistance, and the breast cancer movement / Patricia A. Kaufert -- 13. Selective compliance with biomedical authority and the uses of experiential knowledge / Emily K. Abel and C. H. Browner -- 14. The mission within the madness: self-initiated medicalization as expression of agency / Mark Nichter.
ISBN
  • 0521620996
  • 0521629292 (pbk.)
LCCN
97010263
OCLC
  • 36565989
  • ocm36565989
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries