Title: What makes women sick : gender and the political economy of health /
Authors: Doyal, Lesley.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Women Health and hygiene Sociological aspects.; Sexism in medicine.; Women Social conditions.; Women Health and hygiene Political aspects.; Women's health services Social aspects.; Socioeconomic Factors; Women's Health; Women's Health Services
Abstract: What makes women sick? To an Ecuadorean woman, it's nervios from constant worry about her children's illnesses. To a woman working in a New Mexico electronics factory, it's the solvents that leave her with a form of dementia. To a Ugandan woman, it's HIV from her husband's sleeping with the widow of an AIDS patient. To a Bangladeshi woman, it's a fatal infection following an IUD insertion. What they all share is a recognition that their sickness is somehow caused by situations they face every day at home and at work.
Contents: 1. In Sickness and in Health -- 2. Hazards of Hearth and Home -- 3. Safe Sex? -- 4. Regulating Reproduction -- 5. A Labour of Love -- 6. Waged Work and Well-being -- 7. Abusing Women -- 8. Women's Movements for Health.