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Author: Susan Sherwin
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781566396332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the real world of women's health status and health-care delivery in different countries, and the assumptions behind the dominant medical model of solving problems without regard to social conditions. This book asks what feminist health-care ethics looks like if we start with women's experiences and concerns.
Author: Elizabeth Fee
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1351840614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the face of the long domination of medical care by men, Women and Health explores from a variety of perspectives the twin issues of women in health care, and the health care of women. Specific sections address the women's health movement, birth control and childbirth, women in the health labor force, and the influence of women's employment on their health. Already acclaimed by scholars and health policy-makers alike, Women and Health is sure to become a standard sourcebook on an important and neglected subject.
Author: Michele Rivkin-Fish
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-08-04
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780253217677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussia's maternal health crisis and postsocialist transition examined through ethnographic observation in clinics and hospitals.
Author: Sandra Morgen
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780813530710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent history has witnessed a revolution in womens health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, women in communities across the United States challenged medical and male control over womens health. Few people today realize the extent to which these grassroots efforts shifted power and responsibility from the medical establishment into womens hands as health care consumers, providers, and advocates. Into Our Own Hands traces the womens health care movement in the United States. Richly documented, this study is based on more than a decade of research, including interviews with leading activists; documentary material from feminist health clinics and advocacy organizations; a survey of womens health movement organizations in the early 1990s; and ethnographic fieldwork. Sandra Morgen focuses on the clinics born from this movement, as well as how the movements encounters with organized medicine, the state, and ascendant neoconservative and neoliberal political forces of the 1970s to the1980s shaped the confrontations and accomplishments in womens health care. The book also explores the impact of political struggles over race and class within the movement organizations.
Author: Ruth Hubbard
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780813514901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this work the author explores the social and political assumptions of biology, and genetics in particular. She examines the ways biologists use scientific language, use genetics, and apply it to human situations, especially to women's situations.
Author: Barbara Anne Gurr
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780813564685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Reproductive Justice, sociologist Barbara Gurr provides the first book examining Native American women's reproductive healthcare. Drawing on interviews and focus group data, archival research, and discussions with healthcare professionals, Gurr paints an insightful portrait of the Indian Health Service (IHS)--the federal agency tasked with providing healthcare to Native Americans--shedding much-needed light on Native American efforts to obtain prenatal care, childbirth care, access to contraception and abortion services.
Author: Carla Jean Bittel
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0807832839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "woman question," a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally weak, that education would make them physically ill, and th
Author: Susan J. Carroll
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2003-02-06
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0191522090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen and American Politics brings together leading scholars in the field of women and politics to provide an account of recent developments and the challenges that the future brings for the study of gender and American Politics. The book examines women's participation in the electoral arena and the emerging scholarship on the relationship between the media and women in politics, the participation of women of colour, and women's activism outside the electoral arena. This volume demonstrates both the wealth of knowledge about women and American politics by the current generation of scholars and the vast number and range of important research questions, which pose a challenge for the next generation.
Author: Lesley Doyal
Publisher: Anaya -Spain
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780813522074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat makes women sick? To an Ecuadorean woman, it's nervios from constant worry about her children's illnesses. To a woman working in a New Mexico electronics factory, it's the solvents that leave her with a form of dementia. To a Ugandan woman, it's HIV from her husband's sleeping with the widow of an AIDS patient. To a Bangladeshi woman, it's a fatal infection following an IUD insertion. What they all share is a recognition that their sickness is somehow caused by situations they face every day at home and at work. In this clearly written and compelling book, Lesley Doyal investigates the effects of social, economic, and cultural conditions on women's health. The "fault line" of gender that continues to divide all societies has, Doyal demonstrates, profound and pervasive consequences for the health of women throughout the world. Her broad synthesis highlights variations between men and women in patterns of health and illness, and it identifies inequalities in medical care that separate groups of women from each other. Doyal's wide-ranging arguments, her wealth of data, her use of women's voices from many cultures--and her examples of women mobilizing to find their own solutions--make this book required reading for everyone concerned with women's health.
Author: Rose Weitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199343799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Politics of Women's Bodies, Fourth Edition, is an anthology covering the issues surrounding women's bodies. Threads running throughout the book include the distribution of power between men and women, how that affects cultural standards, and how those standards subsequently serve aspowerful and political tools for controlling women's appearance, sexuality, and behavior. This book fills an important niche not covered by other books: focus on women's bodies, social control, and agency.The new edition includes updated readings which engage diversity and highlight cross-cultural relevance where appropriate.
