Essays on women, medicine and health
By: Ann Oakley.
Series: Edinburgh education and society; Edinburgh education and society series.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Women -- Health and hygiene.; Women -- Social conditions.; Feminism.
Description: In this collection of essays, Ann Oakley, one of the most influential social scientists of the last twenty years, brings together the best of her word on the sociology of women's health.

She focuses on four main themes - divisions of labour, motherhood, technology and methodology - and in her own inimitable style, combines serious academic discourse from a feminist sociological perspective with a practical understanding of what it is to be a women facing the often impersonal world of twentieth-century medicine.

Updating and expanding substantially on her earlier work, Telling the Truth About Jerusalem, this new collection bridges the medical/social divide in an accessible and personable way.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-289) and index.