Gender Perspectives on Reproduction and Sexuality, Volume 8 (Advances in Gender Research)
Contributors: Marcia Texler Segal (Editor); Vasilikie Demos (Editor); Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld (Editor)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780762310883
Subjects: Feminism; Sociology; Social Science; Sociology - General; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science-Women's Studies - General; Childbirth; Human reproduction; Social aspects; Women's rights
First sentence: In 2002 when we began reviewing papers for possible inclusion in Advances in Gender Research volume 7: Gender Perspectives on Health and Medicine: Key Themes, and Volume 8: Gender Perspectives on Health and Medicine: Reproduction and Sexuality, the popular press was full of headlines about Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) (for references and extended and detailed discussion by researchers and physicians see the editorial by Ronald C. Hamdy, MD, FRCP, FACP (2002) and the letters to the editor (Mikhail, 2003) in the Southern Journal of Medicine).