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Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures, customarily associated with strength in men and beauty in women. Educated or self-styled experts, ranging from physicians to newspaper columnists to advertisers, offer advice on achieving optimal health. Historically, gendered concepts of health were transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, with media images resulting in the absorption of universal standards of beauty and health and generalized desires to achieve them. Topics in this collection are wide ranging and include childbirth advice in Victorian Australia and Cold War America, menstruation films, Canadian abortion tourism, the Pap smear, the Body Worlds exhibition, and fat liberation. Masculinity is explored among drunkards in antebellum Philadelphia and family memoirs during the 1980s AIDS epidemic. Seemingly objective public health advisories are shown to be as influenced by commercial interests, class, gender, and other social differentiations as marketing approaches, and the message presented is mediated to varying degrees by those receiving it. This book will be of interest to scholars in womens studies, health studies, marketing, media studies, social history and anthropology, and popular culture.
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Health in mass media, Women, health and hygiene, Men, health and hygiene, Human body, History, Body image, Women, Health and hygiene, Sociological aspects, Health, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Women's Health, Social aspects, Corps humain, Aspect social, Histoire, Image du corps, Femmes, Santé et hygiène, Aspect sociologique, SantéShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Gender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives
2011, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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