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Las mujeres y la salud
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ISBN: 9681206452 6076287853 Year: 1995 Publisher: El Colegio de México

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"Six solid works analyze women's health and relevant sociocultural conditions. Contributions include a comparative analysis of attitudes and practices related to health, pregnancy, and contraception in two rural communities; an examination of the role of domestic medicine in rural areas; and a general revision of perspectives on the relationship between gender and health"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.


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Gender, health, and popular culture
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ISBN: 1299313477 1554582482 9781554582488 9781554582174 1554582172 9781299313477 9781554582532 1554582539 Year: 2011 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont.

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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.


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Researching with care : applying feminist care ethics to research practice
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ISBN: 1447359798 1447359801 1447359763 1447359771 Year: 2023 Publisher: Bristol : Policy Press,

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This text demonstrates how an ethics of care can help researchers work through challenges and solve complex issues. Keeping social justice at the heart of research, the book shows how an ethics of care can provide a systematic approach supporting good judgements about research practices from inspection to impact.

Genes, women, equality
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ISBN: 0195121104 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York Oxford Oxford University Press

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Genetics is not gender neutral in its impact. In this book, the author cites a wide range of biological and psychosocial examples that reveal its different impact on men and women, especially with regard to reproduction and caregiving.She examines the extent to which these differences are associated with gender injustice, arguing for positions that reduce inequality between the sexes.

Evaluating women's health messages : a resource book
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ISBN: 0761900578 1322420777 1483345432 1452247951 9781483345437 9781452247953 Year: 1996 Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : ©1996 SAGE,

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The increased attention currently being paid to women's reproductive health issues has produced a corresponding interest in the role that communication plays in promoting better health care. Groundbreaking and comprehensive, this book is the first systematic examination of the major types and forms of messages about women's reproductive health - medical, social scientific and public - and the degree to which these messages compare with and contradict each other. Within the broad framework of communication, a range of women's health issues are examined in this book from political, historical, t


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The Sociology of South Asian Women’s Health
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ISBN: 303050204X 3030502031 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This contributed volume is the first-known collection of essays that brings together scholarly review, critiques, and primary and secondary data to assess how sociocultural factors influence health behavior in South Asian women. The essays are authored by working scholars or healthcare practitioners from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. In the chapters, the contributors acknowledge social, economic, and environmental factors to recommend improved interventions and health policy for women of the region. Studies on South Asian women’s health have targeted clinical evidence, with less attention on social and environmental factors driving health recovery and health outcomes. The South Asian region, more than any other part of the world, is driven by traditional and cultural forces that are possibly the most significant factors determining a woman’s health awareness and her rights to adopt healthy behavior or pursue health recovery. Women of the region share a common culture and political history, and there are benefits to understanding their problems collectively in order to design joint improvements in health policy for women. Salient, but neglected, socio-political areas that influence health behavior and health outcomes in women of the region are covered in the chapters including: • Oral Narrations of Social Rejection Suffered by South Asian Women with Irreversible Health Conditions • Women’s Role in Decision-Making for Health Care in South Asia • Poverty, Health Coverage, and Credit Opportunities for South Asian Women • Refugee, Displaced, and Climate-Affected Women of South Asia and Their Health Challenges • The Political Sociology of South Asian Women’s Health The Sociology of South Asian Women’s Health is a useful resource for students, researchers, and academicians, especially those interested in public health, gender, social policy, and occupational management, as well as healthcare practitioners, administrators, health and public policy-makers, government officers, and scholars of South Asian studies.

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