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Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009
Traditional distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being reconfigured in new, more complex ways. The long-established life expectancy gap between men and women appears to be closing in many affluent societies. Many men appear to be far more 'body and health conscious' than they ever were in the past and there are perceptible changes in women's 'health behaviours', such as increases in cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption.
Ellen Annandale provides a comprehensive and persuasive analysis of the contemporary social relations of gender and women's health, arguing that the once all important sex/gender distinction fosters an undue separation between the social and the biological whereas it is their interaction and flexibility that is important in the production of health and illness. New theoretical tools are needed in a world where the meaning and lived experience of biological sex and of social gender, as well as the connections between them, are far more fluid. This book takes a step forward, outlining what an adequate feminist analysis of women's health might look like.
Women's Health and Social Change will be of interest to academics and students working in sociology, women's studies, gender studies, social medicine, social policy, nursing and midwifery.
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Sociologist Annandale (Univ. of Leicester) surveys the past three decades of Anglo-American scholarship about women's health, critically examining the advantages and pitfalls of different approaches and putting them in historical perspective. Annandale maintains that feminists have not paid sufficient attention to changes in women's health indicators, including the fact that the gap between women's and men's life expectancies is narrowing. She also claims (unconvincingly, in light of the enormous body of scholarship by Lynda Birke, Susan Bordo, Emily Martin, Ann Oakley, Mary Poovey, Martha Vicinus, Rose Weitz, and others) that feminists have not adequately scrutinized the feminization of the role of patient in Western biomedicine over the course of the past three centuries. The first chapter, in which Annandale attempts to refute the idea that 18th- and 19th-century Western feminists had little concern for health and the body, is probably the book's least persuasive. Subsequent chapters, however, include nuanced and thought-provoking investigations of the body-versus-body-politic debate, the glorification of natural childbirth by 1970s-era radical feminists, the limitations of gender difference research, the deleterious impact of late capitalism on biomedicine, the pitfalls of postfeminism and the "body project," and the weakening of health-oriented women's activism caused by identity politics and extreme individualism. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty. A. H. Koblitz Arizona State University
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Acknowledgements | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
1 Recovering gender and health in history | p. 12 |
2 Making connections: feminism, sociology and health | p. 36 |
3 Women and health status | p. 54 |
4 Women and reproduction | p. 68 |
5 Thinking again about sex, gender and health | p. 89 |
6 The making of women's health: diversity and difference | p. 107 |
7 Health in transition | p. 125 |
Notes | p. 147 |
References | p. 151 |
Index | p. 177 |