National Healths : Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context

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In today's globalised world, it is increasingly important to understand the otherness of different societies and their beliefs, histories and practices. This book focuses on a burning cultural issue: how concepts and constructions of gender and sexuality impact upon health, medicine and healthcare. Starting from the premise that health is neither a universal nor a unitary concept, it offers a series of interdisciplinary analyses of what sickness and well-being have been, are and can be. The originality of this book is its cross-cultural and trans-historical approach. Bringing together.  Read more... Abstract: In today's globalised world, it is increasingly important to understand the otherness of different societies and their beliefs, histories and practices. This book focuses on a burning cultural issue: how concepts and constructions of gender and sexuality impact upon health, medicine and healthcare. Starting from the premise that health is neither a universal nor a unitary concept, it offers a series of interdisciplinary analyses of what sickness and well-being have been, are and can be. The originality of this book is its cross-cultural and trans-historical approach. Bringing together Content: Cover Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgements Contributors List of illustrations Table of contents Introduction Overview Part I THE POLITICS OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH Chapter 1 Female Genital Mutilation: Contesting the Right to Speak of Women's Bodies in Africa and the West Chapter 2 Albanian Masculinities, Sex-Work and Migration: Homosexuality, AIDS and Other Moral Threats Chapter 3 The Semantics and Politics of Childbearing and Motherhood in Contemporary African Literature Chapter 4 What Difference Did Empire Make? Sex, Gender and Sanitary Reform in the British Empire. Chapter 5 Dangerous Blood: Menstruation, Medicine and Myth in Early Modern EnglandPart II THE REPRESENTATION OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH Chapter 6 Remembrance of Health Lost: Dis/Figuring Africa in European AIDS Writing Chapter 7 Vulnerable Margins: The Iconography of Blood, Dirt and Disease in the Early Twentieth-Century South African Settler Novel Chapter 8 Sex in a Hot Climate: Moral Degeneracy and Erotic Excess in The Story Of Jan Daraa Chapter 9 Some Fundamental Riddles of Cholera: Sex, Sodomy and Representations of the Fundament Chapter 10 Behold the (Sick) Man. Part III LEARNING FROM SICKNESS AND HEALTHChapter 11 Infectious Social Change: Tuberculosis and Exile among Tibetan Refugees in Dharamsala Chapter 12 Angry Women and the Evolution of Chinese Medicine Chapter 13 Reading Gender in Ancient Egyptian Healing Papyri Chapter 14 René and the 'Mal du Siècle': A Literary Role Model for the Negotiation of Problematic Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe -- The Cases of Custine and Amiel Chapter 15 Poetry, Pictures and the Sexual Demographics of Health Index.