Bodily subjects : essays on gender and health, 1800-2000 / edited by Tracy Penny Light, Barbara Brookes, and Wendy Mitchinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penny Light, Tracy, Author.

Contributor:

Light, Tracy Penny, editor.

Brookes, Barbara, editor.

Mitchinson, Wendy, editor.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 42.

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Health and hygiene--History.

Women.

Men--Health and hygiene--History.

Men.

Femininity--Health aspects--History.

Femininity.

Masculinity--Health aspects--History.

Masculinity.

Health--Sex differences--History.

Health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the streets of Toronto in the 1990s, Bodily Subjects explores the historical entanglement between gender and health to expose how ideas of health - a concept whose meanings we too often assume to understand - are embedded in assumptions about femininity and masculinity. These essays expand the conversation on health and gender by examining their intersection in different geo-political contexts and times. Constantly measured through ideals and judged by those in authority, healthy development has been construed differently for teenage girls, adult men and women, postpartum mothers, and those seeking cosmetic surgery. Over time, meanings of health have expanded from an able body signifying health in the nineteenth century to concepts of "well-being," a psychological and moral interpretation, which has dominated health discourse in Western countries since the late twentieth century. Through examinations of particular times and places, across two centuries and three continents, Bodily Subjects highlights the ways in which the body is both subjectively experienced and becomes a subject of inquiry. Contributors include Barbara Brookes (University of Otago), Brigitte Fuchs (University of Vienna), Catherine Gidney (St Thomas University), Mona Gleason (University of British Columbia), Natalie Gravelle (York University), Rebecca Godderis (Wilfrid Laurier University), Antje Kampf (Humboldt University of Berlin), Marjorie Levine-Clark (University Colorado Denver), Wendy Mitchinson (University of Waterloo), Meg Parsons (University of Auckland), Tracy Penny Light (University of Waterloo), Patricia A. Reeve (Suffolk University), Anika Stafford (Simon Fraser University), and Thomas Wendelboe (University of Waterloo).

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Section One Embodied Citizenship""; ""1 The "Bone and Sinew of the Nation": Antebellum Workingmen on Health and Sovereignty""; ""2 Gendered Roles, Gendered Welfare: Health and the English Poor Law, 1871-1911""; ""3 Constructing Hygienic Subjects: The Regulation and Reformation of Aboriginal Bodies""

""4 Shaping Student Bodies and Minds: The Redefinition of Self at English-Canadian Universities, 1900-60""""Section Two Defining and Contesting Illness""; ""5 Osteomalacia: Femininity and the Softening of Bones in Central European Medicine (1830-1920)""; ""6 Disciplining Male Bodies: Infertility and Medicine in Germany in the Decades after the Second World War""; ""7 Cherishing Hopes of the Impossible: Mothers, Fathers, and Disability at Birth in Mid-Twentieth-Century New Zealand""

""8 Breaking Down Barriers: Women in the Ontario HIV/AIDS Movement before the Advent of Antiretroviral Therapy"" ""Section Three Authority and Ideals""; ""9 Referred for Special Services: Children, Youth, and the Production of Heteronormativity at Alexandra Neighbourhood House in Post-war Vancouver""; ""10 The Heterosexual Nature of Health and Hygiene Advertisements in the Cold War Era""; ""11 Educating Doctors about Obesity: The Gendered Use of Pharmaceutical Advertisements""; ""12 Motherhood Gone Mad? The Rise of Postpartum Depression in the United States during the 1980's""

""13 From Fixing to Enhancing Bodies: Shifting Ideals of Health and Gender in the Medical Discourse on Cosmetic Surgery in Twentieth-Century Canada"" ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 28, 2014).

ISBN:

9780773596429

0773596429

9780773596412

0773596410

OCLC:

903441235