National healths [electronic resource] : gender, sexuality and health in a cross-cultural context / edited by Michael Worton and Nana Wilson-Tagoe.

Contributor(s): Worton, Michael, 1951- | Wilson-Tagoe, Nana | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Portland, Or. : UCL ; Cavendish Pub., 2004Description: xii, 232 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. (some col.)ISBN: 9781315066608 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Medical anthropology | Diseases -- Cross-cultural studies | Health -- Cross-cultural studies | Sex -- Health aspects | Human body -- Social aspects | Body imageGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.4/61 LOC classification: GN296 | .N38 2004Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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