Pragmatic women and body politics / edited by Margaret Lock, Patricia A. Kaufert
1998, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #323345
ISBN: 0521629292
Physical description: xii, 364 p.; 23 cm. Summary: In a series of accessible case studies, contributors here show that women worldwide react pragmatically to medical technology, with responses ranging from acceptance to resistance to indifference. The study also addresses such themes as the emergence of the breast cancer movement and reactions to environmental hazards. This book will be a key text in medical anthropology and women's studies. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Remembering Amal: on birth and the British in northern Sudan / Janice Boddy -- Resistance and embrace: Sudanese rural women and systems of power / Ellen Gruenbaum -- Not only women: science as resistance in open door Egypt / Soheir A. Morsy -- Inscribing the body politic: women and AIDS in Africa / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- Barren ground: contesting identities of infertile women in Pemba, Tanzania / Karina Kielmann -- Wives, mothers, and lesbians: rethinking resistance in the US / Ellen Lewin -- The consequences of modernity for childless women in China: medicalization and resistance / Lisa Handwerker -- Perfecting society: reproductive technologies, genetic testing, and the planned family in Japan / Margaret Lock -- An ethnography of the medicalization of Puerto Rican women's reproduction / Iris Lopez. Situating resistance in fields of resistance: Aboriginal women and environmentalism / John D. O'Neil, Brenda D. Elias, and Annalee Yassi -- Women, resistance, and the breast cancer movement / Patricia A. Kaufert -- Selective compliance with biomedical authority and the uses of experiential knowledge / Emily K. Abel and C.H. Browner -- The mission within the madness: self-initiated medicalization as expression of agency / Mark Nichter. Subjects: Human reproductive technology Social aspects. Medical anthropology. Medical technology Social aspects. Women Health and hygiene. Genre: Bibliography.
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