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National healths

gender, sexuality and health in a cross-cultural context

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UCL, Cavendish Pub.
Language
English
Pages
232

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Cover of: NATIONAL HEALTHS: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND HEALTH IN A CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXT; ED. BY MICHAEL WORTON.

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London, Portland, Or

Table of Contents

PART I: THE POLITICS OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH
Female genital mutilation: contesting the right to speak of women's bodies in Africa and the West -- Nahid Toubia
Albanian masculinities, sex-work and migration: homosexuality, AIDS and other moral threats -- Nicola Mai
The semantics and politics of childbearing and motherhood in contemporary African literature -- Nana Wilson-Tagoe
What difference did empire make? Sex, gender and sanitary reform in the British Empire -- Philippa Levine
Dangerous blood: mensturation, medicine and myth in early modern England -- Margaret Healy -- PART II: THE REPRESENTATION OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH
Remembrance of health lost: dis/figuring Africa in European AIDS writing -- James N. Agar
Vulnerable margins: the iconography of blood, dirt and disease in the early twentieth-century South African settler novel -- Lynda Morgan
Sex in a hot climate: moral degeneracy and erotic excess in The story of Jan Daraa -- Rachel Harrison
Some fundamental riddles of cholera: sex, sodomy and representations of the fundament -- George S. Rousseau
Behold the (sick) man -- Michael Worton -- PART III: LEARNING FROM SICKNESS AND HEALTH
Infectious social change: tuberculosis and exile among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala -- Audrey Prost
Angry women and the evolution of Chinese medicine -- Shigehisa Kuriyama
Reading gender in ancient Egyptian healing Papyri -- Stephen Quirke
René and the 'Mal du Siècle': a literary role model for the negotiation of problematic sexual identity in nineteenth-century Europe - the case of Custine and Amiel -- Caroline Warman
Poetry, pictures and the sexual demographics of health -- Deborah Kirklin.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Genre
Cross-cultural studies.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.4/61
Library of Congress
GN296 .N38 2004, GN296-296.5R702-703, GN296 .N38 2004eb, GN296 .N38 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 232 p., [6] p. of plates :
Number of pages
232

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3437742M
Internet Archive
nationalhealthsg0000unse
ISBN 10
1844720179
LCCN
2005295595
OCLC/WorldCat
56642781, 852899205
Library Thing
9525335
Goodreads
2753828

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