Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience Perspectives

This provocative collection incites a fundamental rethinking of women's health and healing and challenges readers to see fresh sites of action. It envisions transformations in women's health through the transdisciplinary lenses of recent work in feminist theory, cultural studies and technoscience studies. Contributors pursue new approaches to women's health through direct examination of theoretical interventions, strategies for destabilizing taken-for-granted research methods, and modes of (re)constructing experiences through searching the self and multiple selves--individually and collectively. Several authors confront the novel kinds of surveillance, commodification and stratification engendered by new world reproductive orders. Discursive constructions of "good" and "bad" mothers by race and class in the "American national family" are detailed. Other contributors disrupt traditional agendas for women's health in areas such as health reform, lesbian health and midlife. Throughout, enhancedrecognition of differences and complexities of women's knowledges, bodies, experiences and desires undergirds the project of revisioning. The editors' theoretical introduction and conclusion provide historical and material contexts which locate revisioning and emphasize fluidities in recasting women's health in the millennium.