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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The names of Adele Clark and Virginia Olesen are familiar to anyone involved even peripherally in women's health. . . . In Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives, Clarke and Olesen are moving in a new direction. . . if they (essays) they do not always work to further the admittedly ambitious objective of the introduction, to completely re-theorize women's health, they often bring solid new perspectives to it. -- Catherine A. Warren, North Carolina State University, NWSA Journal
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
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
About the Author
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.
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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 Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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feminist technoscience studies, technoscientific liberty, virtual speculum, disruptive agendas, health care activism, model benefits package, gynecological speculum, revisioning women, colonial psychiatry, feminist science studies, public fetus, surveillance medicine, defined menopause, reproductive discourse, lesbian health, menopause industry, midlife women, nutrition work, freedom projects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Harvard University Press, Thousand Oaks, African American, University of California Press, San Francisco, Wonder Woman, New Brunswick, Donna Haraway, Indiana University Press, Journal of Women, Our Selves, Rutgers University Press, University of Chicago Press, Beacon Press, University of Minnesota Press, Bell Telephone, Patricia Hill, The Handmaid's Tale, World War, Duke University Press, Princeton University Press, Sage Publications, Troubling the Angels New!
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- Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates by Michele Barrett on page 37, page 41, and page 44
- Conflicts in Feminism by Marianne Hirsch on page 15, page 42, and page 47
- Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna J. Haraway on page 41, and page 265
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- Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn by Adele E. Clarke in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn by Adele E. Clarke in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination Is Changing the World by Amy Agigian in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Birth By Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe by Raymond De Vries on page 107, and page 108
- Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination Is Changing the World by Amy Agigian in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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