Clarke / Olesen Revisioning Women, Health and Healing

Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-317-79543-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, Adele E.

Olesen, Virginia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FEMINISTS REVISIONING: THEORETICAL SPECULATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS
Adele E. Clarke and Virginia Olesen -- Revising, Diffracting, Acting
Donna J. Haraway -- The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order
Emily Martin -- The Woman in the Flexible Body
DESTABILIZING METHODS
Rayna Rapp -- One New Reproductive Technology, Multiple Sites: How Feminist Methodology Bleeds into Everyday Life
Patti Lather -- Naked Methodology: Researching Lives of Women with HIV/AIDS
Denise Segura and Adela de la Torres -- La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina Health
Marjorie L. DeVault -- Whose Science of Food and Health? Narratives of Profession and Activism from Public Health Nutrition
(RE)CONSTRUCTING EXPERIENCE: SEARCHING THE SELF
Sharon Traweek -- Warning Signs: Acting on Images
Ruth Behar -- The Girl in the Cast
Fran5~oise Verges -- (Post)Colonial Psychiatry: The Making of a Colonized Pathology
CHALLENGING NEW WORLD REPRODUCTIVE ORDERS
Anne Balsamo -- Public Pregnancies and Cultural Narratives of Surveillance
Valerie Hartouni -- A Study in Reproductive Technologies
Patricia Hill Collins -- Will the "Real" Mother Please Stand Up?: The Logic of Eugenics and American National Family Planning
Beth Richie -- The Social Construction of the "Immoral" Black Mother: Social Policy, Community Policing, and Effects on Youth Violence
REVISED AND DISRUPTIVE AGENDAS FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH
Sheryl Burt Ruzek -- Rethinking Feminist Ideologies and Actions: Thoughts on the Past and Future of Health Reform
Jennifer Terry -- Agendas for Lesbian Health: Countering the Ills of Homophobia
Nancy Fugate Woods -- Midlife Women's Health: Conflicting Perspectives of Health Care Providers and Midlife Women and Consequences for Health
Virginia Olesen and Adele E. Clarke -- Resisting Closure, Embracing Uncertainties, Creating Agendas

Über Autor(innen)

Adele E. Clarke is Associate Professor of Sociology and History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is author of Disciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the "Problem of Sex" (1998) and co-edited Women's Health: Complexities and Differences (1997) with Virginia L. Olesen and Sheryl Ruzek. Virginia L. Olesen is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco.