| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 308 pages) : illustrations, portrait |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, with media images resulting in the absorption of universal standards of beauty and health and generalized desires to achieve them. Topics in this collection are wide ranging and include childbirth advice in Victorian Australia and Cold War America, menstruation films, Canadian abortion tourism, the Pap smear, the Body Worlds exhibition, and fat liberation. Masculinity is explored among drunkards in antebellum Philadelphia and family memoirs during the 1980s AIDS epidemic. Seemingly objective public health advisories are shown to be as influenced by commercial interests, class, gender, and other social differentiations as marketing approaches, and the message presented is mediated to varying degrees by those receiving it. This book will be of interest to scholars in womens studies, health studies, marketing, media studies, social history and anthropology, and popular culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Health -- Social aspects -- History
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects.
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Body image -- Social aspects -- History
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Human body -- Social aspects -- History
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Human Body
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Body Image
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Women's Health -- history
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Cross-cultural studies
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Body image -- Social aspects
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Health -- Social aspects
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Warsh, Cheryl Krasnick, 1957-
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| LC no. |
cn2010905610 |
| ISBN |
9781554582488 |
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1554582482 |
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9781554582174 |
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1554582172 |
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1299313477 |
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9781299313477 |
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9781554582532 |
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1554582539 |
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