Women's Health, Politics, and Power: Essays on Sex/gender, Medicine, and Public Health

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction Section I: Women and Health: Frameworks Chapter 1: Man-Made Medicine and Women's Health: The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity Chapter 2: Latina and African American Women: Continuing Disparities in Health Chapter 3: Women, Health, and the Sexual Division of Labor: A Case Study of the Women's Health Movement in Britain Section II: Women and the Work of Health Care Chapter 4: Gender Hierarchies in the Health Labor Force Chapter 5: Community Care Policies and Gender Justice Section III: The Health of Women Workers Chapter 6: Double Exposure: The Combined Impact of the Home and Work Environments on Psychosomatic Strain in Swedish Women and Men Chapter 7: The Interactive Effect of Health Status on Work Patterns among Urban Puerto Rican Women Chapter 8: Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Health Effects of the Sexual Division of Labor among Train Cleaners Section IV: Women's Reproductive Health: Asia, Africa, and Latin America Chapter 9: The Untold Story: How the Health Care Systems in Developing Countries Contribute to Maternal Mortality Chapter 10: Abortion Policy and Women's Health in Developing Countries Section V: Sexuality, Women's Bodies, and Women's Health Chapter 11: Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause Chapter 12: A Critical Historical Analysis of the Medical Construction of Lesbianism Section VI: Women and AIDS Chapter 13: More than Mothers and Whores: Redefining the AIDS Prevention Needs of Women Chapter 14: Women and AIDS in Zimbabwe: The Making of an Epidemic Section VII: Gender, Social Policy, and Women's Lives Chapter 15: The Feminization of Poverty: Myth or Reality? Chapter 16: Women and Children at Risk: A Feminist Perspective on Child Abuse Chapter 17: Older Women in the Post-Reagan Era Contributors Index