| Description |
xii, 280 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. In Sickness and in Health -- 2. Hazards of Hearth and Home -- 3. Safe Sex? -- 4. Regulating Reproduction -- 5. A Labour of Love -- 6. Waged Work and Well-being -- 7. Abusing Women -- 8. Women's Movements for Health |
| Summary |
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 - makes this book required reading for everyone concerned with women's health |
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What 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 |
| Analysis |
Women Health |
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Drug use and abuse |
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Health services |
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Overseas item |
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Pressure groups |
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Reproduction |
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Sex behaviour |
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Sexism |
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Women |
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Work |
| Notes |
Includes errata slip |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-265) and index |
| Subject |
Sexism in medicine.
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Political aspects.
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Social medicine -- Women -- Great Britain.
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects.
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women's health services -- Social aspects.
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Feminism [MESH]
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Feminism.
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Health Services [MESH]
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Health Services.
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Health [MESH]
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Health.
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Sex [MESH]
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Sex.
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Sociology [MESH]
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Sociology.
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Women [MESH]
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Women's Health [MESH]
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Women's Health.
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Women.
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Gender Identity.
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Occupational Health.
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Politics.
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Prejudice.
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Women's Health.
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| LC no. |
94247498 |
| ISBN |
0333542045 |
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0333542053 (paperback) |
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