Gender, Health, and Popular Culture : Historical Perspectives /

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Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures, customarily associated with strength in men and beauty in women. Educated or self-styled experts, ranging from physicians to newspaper columnists to advertisers, offer advice on achieving optimal health. Historically, gendered concepts of health were...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Warsh, Cheryl Krasnick, 1957- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2011]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Health and hygiene > Sociological aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
Health > Social aspects.
Body image > Social aspects.
Cross-cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Études transculturelles.
Corps humain > Aspect social > Histoire.
Image du corps > Aspect social > Histoire.
Femmes > Sante et hygiene > Aspect sociologique.
Sante > Aspect social > Histoire.
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Women's Health > history
Body Image
Human Body
Human body > Social aspects > History.
Body image > Social aspects > History.
Health > Social aspects > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I: The Transmission of Health Information
  • Confined: Constructions of Childbirth in Popular and Elite Medical Culture in Late-Nineteenth-Century Australia / Lisa Featherstone
  • Eating for Two: Shaping Mothers' Figures and Babies' Futures in Modern American Culture / Lisa Forman Cody
  • Advice to Adolescents: Menstrual Health and Menstrual Education Films, 1946- 1982 / Sharra L. Vostral
  • Controlling Conception: Images of Women, Safety, Sexuality, and the Pill in the Sixties / Heather Molyneaux
  • All Aboard? Canadian Women's Abortion Tourism, 1960- 1980 / Christabelle Sethna
  • Controlling Cervical Cancer from Screening to Vaccinations: An American Perspective / Kirsten E. Gardner
  • The Challenge of Developing and Publicizing Cervical Cancer Screening Programs: A Canadian Perspective / Mandy Hadenko.

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