- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (21 Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415918464
- ISBN-13: 978-0415918466
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,460,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This excellent and timely book poses vital questions facing the women's health movement today, and proposes bold agendas for the future. This book is essential reading for both theorists and activists interested in exploring new approaches to this important aspect of women's lives."
-Dorothy Roberts author of "Killing The Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty
"Adele Clarke and Virginia Olesen have been challening the biomedical constraints of women's health and healing for many years. Their latest edited volume once again encourages us to reexamine the conceptual foundations of women's health in the United States and move beyond the old agendas, issues and practices. While previous works have expanded our understanding of the substantive issues in women's health, this volume focuses more on theoretical approaches. In particular, feminist theory, cultural studies, and technoscience perspectives are utilized by the contributors to offer a fresh vision of women's health.."
-Contemporary Sociology, 31, 2
-Dorothy Roberts author of "Killing The Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty
"Adele Clarke and Virginia Olesen have been challening the biomedical constraints of women's health and healing for many years. Their latest edited volume once again encourages us to reexamine the conceptual foundations of women's health in the United States and move beyond the old agendas, issues and practices. While previous works have expanded our understanding of the substantive issues in women's health, this volume focuses more on theoretical approaches. In particular, feminist theory, cultural studies, and technoscience perspectives are utilized by the contributors to offer a fresh vision of women's health.."
-Contemporary Sociology, 31, 2
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This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.
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Despite decades of feminist research and theorizing in the social sciences, humanities, nursing, and related sites on the problematics of women's health and embodiment, probably the most common operant framing today in both the academy and society remains the biomedical model. Read the first page
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Despite decades of feminist research and theorizing in the social sciences, humanities, nursing, and related sites on the problematics of women's health and embodiment, probably the most common operant framing today in both the academy and society remains the biomedical model. Read the first page
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