Women in pain : gender and morbidity in Mexico /

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Why are Mexican women more likely to experience nonfatal diseases than their male counterparts? To unravel this mystery, Kaja Finkler explores the relationship between patterns of social interaction, cultural expectations, and gender ideologies. In Women in Pain, she examines the nature of sickness...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Finkler, Kaja
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1994.
Temas:
Women > Health and hygiene > Mexico.
Women > Health and hygiene > Social aspects > Mexico.
Women > Health and hygiene > Mexico > Case studies.
Women > Health and hygiene > Social aspects > Mexico > Case studies.
Sex role > Mexico.
Women > Health and hygiene.
Sex factors in disease.
Women's Health
Sex Factors
Socioeconomic Factors
Rôle selon le sexe > Mexique.
Femmes > Santé et hygiène.
Maladies > Facteurs sexuels.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Gender Studies.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Sex factors in disease
Sex role
Women > Health and hygiene
Women > Health and hygiene > Social aspects
Gender Specific Public Health.
Public Health.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Mexico
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Problem
  • The Nature of Sickness
  • The Nature of Gender
  • Gender and the Nature of Sickness
  • The Context
  • Gender, Culture, and Society in Mexico
  • An Aggregate Profile of a Sick Population of Women
  • Women's Lives and Women's Pains
  • Margarita: A Women in Search of Individuation
  • Alicia: A Mother and a Mistress
  • Julia: A Drunken Husband
  • Rebecca: A Woman on the Verge of Disintegration
  • Juana: In Search of Dignity Amid a Garbage Dump
  • Carlota: From Proletarian to Housewife
  • Josefina: "All My Life I Worked Very Hard"
  • Susana: A Woman Who Ventured into the Public Domain
  • Norma: "I Have Found God"
  • Maria: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire.

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