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Not tonight : migraine and the politics of gender and health / Joanna Kempner.
LIBRA RC392 .K45 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kempner, Joanna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migraine.
- Migraine--Social aspects.
- Headache--Social aspects.
- Headache.
- Migraine Disorders.
- Sex Factors.
- Politics.
- Sociological Factors.
- Social aspects.
- Medical Subjects:
- Migraine Disorders.
- Sex Factors.
- Politics.
- Sociological Factors.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Migraine and the politics of gender and health
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Pain. Vomiting. Hours or even days spent lying in the dark. Migraine is an extraordinarily common, disabling, and painful disorder that affects over 36 million Americans and costs the US economy at least $32 billion per year. Nevertheless, it is frequently dismissed as unimportant or, worse, as an excuse. In Not Tonight, Joanna Kempner argues that the general delegitimization of migraine can be traced back to the gendered social values embedded in the way we talk about, understand, and make policies for people in pain. She follows these feminized ideas throughout the history of migraine, from nineteenth-century formulations of migraine as a disorder of upper-class intellectual men and hysterical women to the influential concept of "migraine personality" in the 1940s, in which women with migraine were described as uptight neurotics who withheld sex, to contemporary depictions of people with highly sensitive "migraine brains." Not Tonight casts new light on how cultural beliefs about gender, pain, and the distinction between mind and body influence not only whose suffering we legitimate, but which remedies are marketed, how medicine is practiced, and how knowledge about disease is produced. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- All in her mind
- All in her brain
- Embracing the migraine brain
- Gendering the migraine market
- Men in pain
- Appendix A. International classification of headache disorders
- Appendix B. Methods.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226179155
- 9780226179018
- 022617901X
- 022617915X
- OCLC:
- 870147724
- Publisher Number:
- 99982343836
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