What Makes Women Sick

, by Doyal, Lesley

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ISBN: 9780813522074 | 0813522072
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Copyright: 6/1/1995

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In this book, the author investigates the effects of social, economic, and cultural conditions on women's health.

Acknowledgements

xii

In Sickness and in Health

(26)

Introduction

(2)

What this book is and is not about

(4)

Rejecting crude universalism

(2)

Rejecting crude difference theories

(1)

Why is health important?

(3)

Health and human needs

(1)

Comparing health across cultures

(1)

A picture of health?

(4)

Inequalities in mortality

(1)

Sickness and affluence

(2)

Sickness and poverty

(1)

Does medicine have the answer to women's health problems?

(4)

The `biomedical model'

(1)

Perils of reductionism

(1)

Gendered research

(1)

Are women really the weaker sex?

(3)

Biological and social advantages of females

(1)

The impact of discrimination on life expectancy

(1)

Redefining women's health

(5)

Further reading

(1)

Hazards of Hearth and Home

(32)

Introduction

(1)

Women's labour in the household economy

(3)

What do women do?

(1)

What do women earn?

(1)

Cross-cultural perspectives on domestic work

(4)

No time for women

(1)

Working themselves to death

(3)

Occupational hazards of unpaid labour

(2)

Demands, dilemmas and distress

(6)

Marriage and marital status

(1)

Is motherhood maddening?

(2)

Dependants and dependency

(2)

Depression, `nervios' or just plain `bad news'?

(3)

An example from India

(1)

A case of `nervios'

(2)

Social significance of mental distress

(1)

Who cares for the carers?

(3)

To each according to her needs?

(3)

Adding injury to insult

(4)

The scope of the problem

(2)

The reality of domestic violence

(1)

The psychological effects of battering

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Further reading

(2)

Safe Sex?

(34)

Introduction

(1)

Is heterosex good for women?

(3)

Mad with desire

(5)

Sex and violence

(6)

Problems of measurement

(1)

Sexual abuse and male power

(2)

Physical effects of rape

(2)

Emotional effects of abuse

(1)

Dying for sex

(4)

Sex and cervical cancer

(1)

A smear in time

(1)

A culture of silence: the female burden of reproductive tract infections

(2)

Sex, gender and aids

(10)

Why are women at risk?

(1)

Economics of HIV transmission

(2)

Poverty and seropositivity

(2)

Prevention and power

(2)

Motherhood or safer sex?

(1)

Equal opportunities in treatment?

(3)

The unkindest cut

(4)

Conclusion

(1)

Further reading

(1)

Regulating Reproduction

(32)

Introduction

(1)

Health and reproduction

(2)

Who controls whose fertility?

(5)

Family ties

(1)

The power of religion

(1)

Nationalism and natalism

(2)

Social eugenics and social control

(2)

A contraceptive revolution?

100

(3)

Expanding contraceptive technologies

100

(1)

Contraception as `women's business'

101

(2)

Barriers to birth control

103

(3)

Evidence of unmet need

103

(1)

Dynamics of demographic decision making

103

(2)

Shortage of services

105

(1)

Mrs Hobson's choice: picking a contraceptive

106

(9)

Sexism and sterilisation

106

(1)

Sterilisation and abuse

107

(2)

Are IUDs the answer?

109

(3)

Benefits and hazards of hormonal methods

112

(1)

Introducing injectables

112

(2)

Contraceptive providers: care or control?

114

(1)

Abortion -- a global epidemic

115

(8)

Counting the cost

116

(1)

Abortion: public or private choice?

117

(2)

Risks of termination

119

(2)

Wider costs of the abortion epidemic

121

(1)

Politics of innovation

122

(1)

Conclusion

123

(1)

Further reading

123

(2)

A Labour of Love

125

(27)

Introduction

125

(1)

Dying for a baby

126

(7)

The social roots of maternal mortality

127

(2)

The perils of pregnancy

129

(3)

Crying out for care

132

(1)

The new obstetrics: science or social control?

133

(12)

New technologies for old skills

134

(2)

Managing labour

136

(2)

Clinical freedom or medical domination?

138

(3)

A doctor's right to choose

141

(4)

Infertility: a life sentence?

145

(5)

Conclusion

150

(1)

Further reading

151

(1)

Waged Work and Well-being

152

(24)

Introduction

152

(1)

Sexual divisions in waged work

152

(1)

Women work and health

153

(3)

Danger: women at work

156

(8)

Hazards of industrial employment

156

(3)

Agricultural labour: growing dangers

159

(2)

Male bias in occupational health research

161

(1)

Reproductive risks: counting the future cost

162

(2)

Occupational stress and gender: adding insult to injury

164

(5)

Pressures of work

165

(3)

Low status, high stress

168

(1)

Jobs fit for women?

169

(5)

Do nurses need nursing?

169

(3)

`My boss gets on my nerves': the hidden hazards of office work

172

(2)

Conclusion

174

(1)

Further reading

175

(1)

Abusing Women

176

(21)

Introduction

176

(1)

Blowing her mind

176

(2)

Eating her heart out

178

(2)

Fallen angels: alcohol

180

(2)

A pill for every ill

182

(5)

The politics of prescribing

183

(2)

Pharmacology and social control

185

(1)

Tranquillisers as a coping strategy

186

(1)

Assessing risks and benefits of drug use

187

(1)

A smoking epidemic

187

(8)

Smoking and the diseases of equal opportunity

189

(2)

Seduced into smoking

191

(2)

Smoking for life

193

(2)

Conclusion

195

(1)

Further reading

196

(1)

Women's Movements for Health

197

(37)

Introduction

197

(1)

The global politics of women's health

197

(1)

Reproductive rights and wrongs

198

(11)

Campaigning for change: unity and diversity

199

(2)

Seeking sexual self-determination

201

(1)

The battle for birth control

202

(2)

A woman's right to choose?

204

(3)

Controlling birth

207

(2)

Challenging medicine

209

(9)

Women help themselves

210

(2)

Creating feminist alternatives

212

(3)

Reforming the system

215

(1)

Empowering women

216

(2)

Basic needs and sustainable development

218

(4)

The politics of subsistence

219

(1)

Producing food and fuel

220

(1)

Ensuring safe water and sanitation

221

(1)

Homes fit for habitation

221

(1)

Working for health

222

(5)

Organisational strategies

223

(1)

Office workers in action

224

(1)

Confronting sexual harassment

224

(1)

Factory workers fight back

225

(1)

Health and safety in sex work

226

(1)

Spreading the word

226

(1)

Putting violence on the political agenda

227

(4)

Supporting survivors

228

(1)

Campaigning for prevention

229

(2)

Conclusion

231

(1)

Further reading

232

(2)

Bibliography

234

(32)

Index

266

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