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

• Pubblicazione: Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 p.)
• Disciplina: 613/.0424
• Soggetto topico: Women - Health and hygiene - History; Men - Health and hygiene - History; Femininity - Health aspects - History; Masculinity - Health aspects - History; Health - Sex differences - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): LightTracy Penny; BrookesBarbara; MitchinsonWendy
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Bodily subjects
• ISBN: 0-7735-9641-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459804603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; ; 42.