TY  - BOOK
AU  - Worton,Michael
AU  - Wilson-Tagoe,Nana
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - National healths: gender, sexuality and health in a cross-cultural context 
AV  - GN296 .N38 2004
U1  - 306.4/61 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London, Portland, Or.
PB  - UCL, Cavendish Pub.
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Health
KW  - Sex
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Body image
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; PART I: THE POLITICS OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH --; Female genital mutilation: contesting the right to speak of women's bodies in Africa and the West; Nahid Toubia --; Albanian masculinities, sex-work and migration: homosexuality, AIDS and other moral threats; Nicola Mai --; The semantics and politics of childbearing and motherhood in contemporary African literature; Nana Wilson-Tagoe --; What difference did empire make? Sex, gender and sanitary reform in the British Empire; Philippa Levine --; Dangerous blood: mensturation, medicine and myth in early modern England; Margaret Healy --; PART II: THE REPRESENTATION OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH --; Remembrance of health lost: dis/figuring Africa in European AIDS writing; James N. Agar --; Vulnerable margins: the iconography of blood, dirt and disease in the early twentieth-century South African settler novel; Lynda Morgan --; Sex in a hot climate: moral degeneracy and erotic excess in The story of Jan Daraa; Rachel Harrison --; Some fundamental riddles of cholera: sex, sodomy and representations of the fundament; George S. Rousseau --; Behold the (sick) man; Michael Worton --; PART III: LEARNING FROM SICKNESS AND HEALTH --; Infectious social change: tuberculosis and exile among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala; Audrey Prost --; Angry women and the evolution of Chinese medicine; Shigehisa Kuriyama --; Reading gender in ancient Egyptian healing Papyri; Stephen Quirke --; Rene and the 'Mal du Siecle': a literary role model for the negotiation of problematic sexual identity in nineteenth-century Europe - the case of Custine and Amiel; Caroline Warman --; Poetry, pictures and the sexual demographics of health; Deborah Kirklin; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
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