An edition of National Healths
(2004)
National Healths
Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context
by Michael Worton and Nana Wilson-Tagoe
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Subjects
Medical anthropology, Diseases, Health, Sex, Human body, social aspects, Body image
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements.
Contributors.
List of illustrations.
Introduction. Michael Worton
Overview. Nana Wilson-Tagoe
Part I. The Politics of Sickness and Health
Chapter 1. Female Genital Mutilation: Contesting the Right to Speak of Women's Bodies in Africa and the West, Nahid Toubia
Chapter 2. Albanian Masculinities, Sex-Work and Migration: Homosexuality, AIDS and Other Moral Threats, Nicola Mai
Chapter 3. The Semantics and Politics of Childbearing and Motherhood in Contemporary African Literature, Nana Wilson-Tagoe
Chapter 4. What Difference Did Empire Make? Sex, Gender and Sanitary Reform in the British Empire, Philippa Levine
Chapter 5. Dangerous Blood: Menstruation, Medicine and Myth in Early Modern England, Margaret Healy
Part II. The Representation of Sickness and Health
Chapter 6. Remembrance of Health Lost: Dis/Figuring Africa in European AIDS Writing, James N. Agar
Chapter 7. Vulnerable Margins: The Iconography of Blood, Dirt and Disease in the Early Twentieth-Century South African Settler Novel, Lynda Morgan
Chapter 8. Sex in a Hot Climate: Moral Degeneracy and Erotic Excess in The Story Of Jan Daraa, Rachel Harrison
Chapter 9. Some Fundamental Riddles of Cholera: Sex, Sodomy and Representation of the Fundament, George S. Rousseau
Chapter 10. Behold the (Sick) Man, Michael Worton
Part III. Learning from Sickness and Health
Chapter 11. Infectious Social Change: Tuberculosis and Exile among Tibetan Refugees in Dharamsala, Audrey Prost
Chapter 12. Angry Women and the Evolution of Chinese Medicine, Shigehisa Kuriyama
Chapter 13. Reading Gender in Ancient Egyptian Healing Papyri, Stephen Quirke
Chapter 14. Rene and the 'Mal du Siecle': A Literary Role Model for the Negotiation of Problematic Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe - The Cases of Custine and Amiel, Caroline Warman
Chapter 15. Poetry, Pictures and the Sexual Demographics of Health, Deborah Kirklin
Index.
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