Women's Health and Social Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Health and Social Change write by Ellen Annandale. This book was released on 2008-07-14. Women's Health and Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009 Traditional distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being reconfigured in new, more complex ways. The long-established life expectancy gap between men and women appears to be closing in many affluent societies. Many men appear to be far more ‘body and health conscious’ than they ever were in the past and there are perceptible changes in women’s ‘health behaviours’, such as increases in cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Ellen Annandale provides a comprehensive and persuasive analysis of the contemporary social relations of gender and women’s health, arguing that the once all important sex/gender distinction fosters an undue separation between the social and the biological whereas it is their interaction and flexibility that is important in the production of health and illness. New theoretical tools are needed in a world where the meaning and lived experience of biological sex and of social gender, as well as the connections between them, are far more fluid. This book takes a step forward, outlining what an adequate feminist analysis of women’s health might look like. Women’s Health and Social Change will be of interest to academics and students working in sociology, women’s studies, gender studies, social medicine, social policy, nursing and midwifery.
Women's Health and Social Change
Women's Health and Social Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Health and Social Change write by Ellen Annandale. This book was released on 2008-07-14. Women's Health and Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009 In this important text, Ellen Annandale provides a comprehensive and persuasive analysis of the contemporary social relations of gender and women’s health, outlining what an adequate feminist analysis of women’s health might look like.
The Vulnerable Empowered Woman
The Vulnerable Empowered Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vulnerable Empowered Woman write by Tasha N. Dubriwny. This book was released on 2012-11-14. The Vulnerable Empowered Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The feminist women’s health movement of the 1960s and 1970s is credited with creating significant changes in the healthcare industry and bringing women’s health issues to public attention. Decades later, women’s health issues are more visible than ever before, but that visibility is made possible by a process of depoliticization The Vulnerable Empowered Woman assesses the state of women’s healthcare today by analyzing popular media representations—television, print newspapers, websites, advertisements, blogs, and memoirs—in order to understand the ways in which breast cancer, postpartum depression, and cervical cancer are discussed in American public life. From narratives about prophylactic mastectomies to young girls receiving a vaccine for sexually transmitted disease, the representations of women’s health today form a single restrictive identity: the vulnerable empowered woman. This identity defuses feminist notions of collective empowerment and social change by drawing from both postfeminist and neoliberal ideologies. The woman is vulnerable because of her very femininity and is empowered not to change the world, but to choose from among a limited set of medical treatments. The media’s depiction of the vulnerable empowered woman’s relationship with biomedicine promotes traditional gender roles and affirms women’s unquestioning reliance on medical science for empowerment. The book concludes with a call to repoliticize women’s health through narratives that can help us imagine women—and their relationship to medicine—differently.
Promoting Social Change Through Policy-based Research in Women's Health
Promoting Social Change Through Policy-based Research in Women's Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Promoting Social Change Through Policy-based Research in Women's Health write by Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women's Health. This book was released on 2001. Promoting Social Change Through Policy-based Research in Women's Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women, Violence and Social Change
Women, Violence and Social Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Violence and Social Change write by R. Emerson Dobash. This book was released on 2003-12-16. Women, Violence and Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women, Violence and Social Change demonstrates how refuges and shelters stand as the core of the battered women's movement, providing a basis for pragmatic support, political action and radical renewal. From this base movements in Britain and the United States have challenged the police, courts and social services to provide greater assistance to women. The book provides important evidence on the way social movements can successfully challenge institutions of the State as well as salutatory lessons on the nature of diverted and thwarted struggle. Throughout the book the Dobashes' years of researching violence against women is illustrated in the depth of their analysis. They maintain the tradition established in their first book, Violence Against Wives, which was widely accalimed.
