Pragmatic Women And Body Politics

Author : Margaret Lock,Patricia Alice Kaufert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0521629292

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Pragmatic Women and Body Politics by Margaret Lock,Patricia Alice Kaufert Pdf

This thought-provoking volume compares the responses of women in a variety of countries and cultural settings to modern medical technologies. The contributors describe how women in East Africa deal with infertility, how American women respond to pre-natal diagnostic screening, how women in China and Japan choose to make use of reproductive technologies. The essays also explore wider themes, such as the emergence of the breast cancer movement, and how women confront environmental hazards which threaten them and their families. It is often assumed that women are passive in the face of biomedical technology, but this book shows that they make pragmatic choices, with responses ranging from acceptance to rejection or indifference. The reception of biomedical technology is situated in its local cultural contexts, and vital issues of women's health are related to political and ethnic concerns.

Author : Mary Jacobus,Evelyn Fox Keller,Sally Shuttleworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134976089

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Body/Politics by Mary Jacobus,Evelyn Fox Keller,Sally Shuttleworth Pdf

Body/Politics demonstrates how many of the controversies in modern science involve or invoke the feminine body as their battleground. This groundbreaking collection addresses such scientific issues as artificial fertilization, the "crisis" in childbirth management,and the medical invention of "female" maladies and the debates surrounding them. In the process it makes an important attempt to remedy the traditional division between science and non-science by focusing on the interconnection of literary, social, and scientific discourses concerning the female body. The editors have brought together noted feminist scholars and critics from various fields. Contributers include Susan Bordo, Mary Ann Doane, Donna Haraway, Emily Martin, Mary Poovey and Paula A. Treichler.

Author : Wendy Harcourt
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136182

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Body Politics in Development by Wendy Harcourt Pdf

Body Politics in Development sets out to define body politics as a key political and mobilizing force for human rights in the last two decades. This passionate and engaging book reveals how once-tabooed issues, such as rape, gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive rights, have emerged into the public arena as critical grounds of contention and struggle. Engaging in the latest feminist thinking and action, the book describes the struggles around body politics for people living in economic and socially vulnerable communities and covers a broad range of gender and development issues, including fundamentalism, sexualities and new technologies, from diverse viewpoints. The book's originality comes through the author's rich experience and engagement in feminist activism and global body politics and was winner of the 2010 FWSA Book Prize.

Author : Nadia E. Brown,Sarah Allen Gershon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000682984

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Body Politics by Nadia E. Brown,Sarah Allen Gershon Pdf

The politics of the body is often highly contested, culturally specific, and controlled, and this book calls our attention to how bodies are included or excluded in the polity. With governments regulating bodies in ways that mark the political boundaries of who is a citizen, worthy of protection and rights, as well as those who transgress socially proscribed norms, the contributors to this volume offer a systematic investigation of both theoretical and empirical account of bodily differences broadly defined. These chapters, diverse in both the populations and the political behaviours examined, as well as the methodological approaches employed, showcase the significance of body politics in a way few edited works in political science currently do. Arguing that the body is an important site to understand power relations, this book will be of interest to those studying the unequal application of rights to women, racial and ethnic minorities, the LGBTQ community, and people with disabilities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Politics, Groups, and Identities.

Author : Wendy Harcourt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Women in development
ISBN : 8182910773

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Body Politics in Development by Wendy Harcourt Pdf

Body Politics in Development sets out to define body politics as a key political and mobilizing force for human rights in the last two decades. This passionate and engagingly written book reveals how once tabooed issues such as rape, gender based violence, sexual and reproductive rights have emerged fully fledged into the public arena as critical grounds of contention and struggle. Engaging in the latest feminist thinking and action, the book covers a broad range of key gender and development issues, including women s human rights, fundamentalism, sexualities and new technologies. It describes the struggles around body politics for people living in economic and socially vulnerable communities. The viewpoints are diverse from the self, family and community to the public at national and international levels. The book s originality comes through the author s rich personal insights, her own engagement in feminist activism, global body politics, women s movements, and gender and development debates.

Author : Rose Weitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Body, Human
ISBN : UOM:39076001871719

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The Politics of Women's Bodies by Rose Weitz Pdf

This anthology of previously published writings on the politics of women's bodies provides a basic overview of significant issues in the fields of gender and women's studies. Taken together, this literature, on such diverse topics as the nature of lesbianism, the sources of eating disorders,and the consequences of violence against women, forms the nucleus of a new field, the politics of women's bodies, and its growing interest. The text features three themes throughout, including how ideas about women's bodies are socially constructed, how these ideas affect women's lives, and howwomen can resist these forces. Covering a wide range of topics and disciplines, and examining issues of class, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation, The Politics of Women's Bodies is an ideal addition to any discussion of women's studies and gender.

Author : Stacey A. Langwick
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780253222459

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Bodies, Politics, and African Healing by Stacey A. Langwick Pdf

This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and postcolonial politics. This important work bridges postcolonial theory, science, public health, and anthropology.

Author : Eva De Clercq
Publisher : Springer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137030726

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The Seduction of the Female Body by Eva De Clercq Pdf

Drawing on the ambiguous meaning of the notion of vulnerability, the book offers an innovative approach to the topic of the female body in relation to women's rights; going beyond the age-old dichotomy of casting women as either passive victims or conscious agents.

Author : Maria Josephine Barrios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015052338061

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Body Politics by Maria Josephine Barrios Pdf

Author : Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1845450442

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Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State by Maya Unnithan-Kumar Pdf

Recent years have seen many changes in human reproduction resulting from state and medical interventions in childbearing processes. Based on empirical work in a variety of societies and countries, this volume considers the relationship between reproductive processes (of fertility, pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period) on the one hand and attitudes, medical technologies and state health policies in diverse cultural contexts on the other. Maya Unnithan-Kumar is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her research in the early 1990s focused on kinship and gender relations in northwest India and appeared as Identity, Gender and Poverty (Berghahn Books 1997).

Author : Jacquelyne Luce
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442610088

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Beyond Expectation by Jacquelyne Luce Pdf

An in-depth study of lesbian, bi, and queer women's experiences of thinking about and trying to become a parent, Beyond Expectation draws on eighty-two narrative interviews conducted during the late 1990s in British Columbia. Jacquelyne Luce chronicles these women's experiences, which took place from 1980 to 2000, during a period that saw significant changes to the governance of assisted reproduction and the status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender parents and same-sex partners. Beyond Expectation looks closely at the changing contexts in which women's experiences occurred and draws attention to complex issues such as 'contracting' relationships, mediating understandings of biology and genetics, and decision-making amidst various social, legal, and medical developments. Luce skillfully juxtaposes the stories of her interviewees with the wider public discourses about lesbian/bi/queer parenting and reproductive technology and highlights gaps in existing legislative reforms. Most importantly, Beyond Expectation foregrounds the lived experiences of lesbian, bi, and queer women as they negotiate kinship at the intersection of reproduction, technology, and politics.

Author : Maria O’Reilly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781352001457

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Gendered Agency in War and Peace by Maria O’Reilly Pdf

This book examines how gendered agency emerges in peacebuilding contexts. It develops a feminist critique of the international peacebuilding interventions, through a study of transitional justice policies and practices implemented in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and local activists’ responses to official discourses surrounding them. Extending Nancy Fraser’s tripartite model of justice to peacebuilding contexts, the book also advances notions of recognition, redistribution and representation as crucial components of gender-just peace. It argues that recognising women as victims and survivors of conflict, achieving a gender-equitable distribution of material and symbolic resources, and enabling women to participate as agents of transitional justice processes, are all essential for transforming the structural inequalities that enable gender violence and discrimination to materialise before, during, and after conflict. This study establishes a new avenue of analysis for understanding responses and resistances to international peacebuilding, by offering a sustained engagement with feminist social and political theory.

Author : Pamela E. Klassen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0691087989

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Blessed Events by Pamela E. Klassen Pdf

Blessed Events explores how women who give birth at home use religion to make sense of their births and in turn draw on their birthing experiences to bring meaning to their lives and families. Pamela Klassen introduces a surprisingly diverse group of women, in their own words, while also setting their birth stories within wider social, political, and economic contexts. In doing so, she emerges with a study that disrupts conventional views of both childbirth and religion by blurring assumed divisions between conservative and feminist women and by taking childbirth seriously as a religious act. Most American women who have a choice give birth in a hospital and request pain medication. Yet enough women choose and advocate unmedicated home birth--and do so for carefully articulated reasons, social resistance among them--to constitute a movement. Klassen investigates why women whose religious affiliations range from Old Order Amish to Reform Judaism to goddess-centered spirituality defy majority opinion, the medical establishment, and sometimes the law to have their babies at home. In considering their interpretations--including their critiques of the dominant medical model of childbirth and their views on labor pain--she examines the kinds of agency afforded to or denied women as they derive religious meanings from childbirth. Throughout, she identifies tensions and affinities between feminist and traditionalist appraisals of the symbolic meaning of birth and the power of women. What does home birth--a woman-centered movement working to return birth to women's control--mean in practice for women's gender and religious identities? Is this supreme valuing of procreation and motherhood constraining, or does it open up new realms of cultural and social power for women? By asking these questions while remaining cognizant of religion's significance, Blessed Events challenges both feminist and traditionalist accounts of childbearing while broadening our understanding of how religion is ''lived'' in contemporary America.

Author : Gary L Albrecht,Ray Fitzpatrick,Susan C Scrimshaw
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847870964

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The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine by Gary L Albrecht,Ray Fitzpatrick,Susan C Scrimshaw Pdf

′Designed for students and professionals in the social sciences and health fields, this handbook is easy to use when searching for specific ideas, theorists and topics and contains helpful diagrams which make understanding easier... overall it provides a wealth of knowledge′ - Healthmatters This is the first international and inter-disciplinary social science Handbook on health and medicine. Five years in the making, and building on the insights and advice of an international editorial board, the book brings together world-class figures to provide an indispensable, comprehensive resource book on social science, health and medicine. Pinpointing the focal issues of research and debate in one volume, the material is organized into three sections: social and cultural frameworks of analysis; the experience of health and illness; and health care systems and practices. Each section consists of specially commissioned chapters designed to examine the vital conceptual and methodological practice and policy issues. Readers receive not only a complete survey of social science, health and medicine in one volume, they are further provided with an authoritative guide to methodologies, key concepts, central theoretical traditions and an agenda for future research and practice. The Handbook answers the need, expressed by social scientists and medical practitioners, for an authoritative, inter-disciplinary study which demonstrates the contribution and promise of social science disciplines in the crucial and rapidly changing field of health and medicine. The book will also be of interest to nurses, students in physical therapy, occupational therapy, epidemology, primary care and public health. The Handbook signals the coming of age of the social sciences in the arenas of medicine and health studies

Author : Sarah Boslaugh,Louise-Anne McNutt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1241 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781412928168

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Encyclopedia of Epidemiology by Sarah Boslaugh,Louise-Anne McNutt Pdf

Presents information from the field of epidemiology in a less technical, more accessible format. Covers major topics in epidemiology, from risk ratios to case-control studies to mediating and moderating variables, and more. Relevant topics from related fields such as biostatistics and health economics are also included.