Bodies in a Broken World
Subtitle: Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine (Studies in Social Medicine)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780807854808
Subjects: Black studies; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Personal & public health; Women's studies; 20th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Health Policy; American English; English; Medical; USA; Literature and medicine; Women Authors; Literature/Literary Criticism: American; African-American/African Studies; Women's Studies/Gender Studies; American Studies; Health/Medicine; Native American Studies; Ethnic Studies - General; American fiction; History; History and criticism; Medicine in literature; United States
First sentence: During the 1970s and 1980s, fiction by African American women writers intensified a focus on the connections between politics and illness.