Bodily subjects : essays on gender and health, 1800-2000 /
From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the streets of Toronto in the 1990s, Bodily Subjects explores the historical entanglement between gender and health to expose how ideas of health - a concept...
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Montreal & Kingston :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2014]
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| Edice: | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
42. |
| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=937786 |
Obsah:
- Cover ; McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section One Embodied Citizenship; 1 The "Bone and Sinew of the Nation": Antebellum Workingmen on Health and Sovereignty; 2 Gendered Roles, Gendered Welfare: Health and the English Poor Law, 1871-1911; 3 Constructing Hygienic Subjects: The Regulation and Reformation of Aboriginal Bodies; 4 Shaping Student Bodies and Minds: The Redefinition of Self at English-Canadian Universities, 1900-60.
- Section Two Defining and Contesting Illness5 Osteomalacia: Femininity and the "Softening of Bones" in Central European Medicine (1830-1920); 6 Disciplining Male Bodies: Infertility and Medicine in Germany in the Decades after the Second World War; 7 "Cherishing Hopes of the Impossible": Mothers, Fathers, and Disability at Birth in Mid-Twentieth-Century New Zealand; 8 Breaking Down Barriers: Women in the Ontario HIV/AIDS Movement before the Advent of Antiretroviral Therapy; Section Three Authority and Ideals.
- 9 Referred for Special Services: Children, Youth, and the Production of Heteronormativity at Alexandra Neighbourhood House in Post-war Vancouver10 The Heterosexual Nature of Health and Hygiene Advertisements in the Cold War Era; 11 Educating Doctors about Obesity: The Gendered Use of Pharmaceutical Advertisements; 12 Motherhood Gone Mad? The Rise of Postpartum Depression in the United States during the 1980s; 13 From Fixing to Enhancing Bodies: Shifting Ideals of Health and Gender in the Medical Discourse on Cosmetic Surgery in Twentieth-Century Canada; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.