Governing the female body
Subtitle: gender, health, and networks of power
By: edited by Lori Reed and Paula Saukko.
Contributors: Reed, Lori Stephens.; Saukko, Paula.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781438429533; 9781438429526
Subjects: Women -- Health and hygiene; Women -- Psychology; Women's studies; Feminism -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Governing the female body : three dimensions of power / Paula Saukko and Lori Reed; title: "It's down to you" : psychology, magazine culture and governing female bodies / Lisa Blackman; title: Beyond pill scares? Internet discussions on genetic thrombophilia and gendered contradictions of bioindividuality / Paula Saukko; title: Gender, pathology, spectale : internet addiction and the cultural organization of "healthy" computer use / Lori Reed; title: Pink Ribbons Inc. : the emergence of cause-related marketing and the corporatization of the breast cancer movement / Samantha King; title: Regulation through the postfeminist pharmacy : promotional discourse and menstruation / Joshua Gunn & Mary Douglas Vavrus; title: Productive bodies : women, work and depression / Kristin Swenson; title: 'The pill' in Puerto Rico and the mainland United States : negotiating discourses of risk and decolonization / Laura Briggs; title: Bio-political media : population communications international and the governing of reproductive health / Ronald W. Greene and David Breshears; title: Disciplining the ethnic body : Latinidad, hybridized bodies, and transnational identity / Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina; title: "Doing what comes naturally"-negotiating normality in accounts of IVF-failure / Karen Throsby; title: Sado/masochism and the re/production of femininity / Barbara Mennel; title: Beyond XX and XY : living genomic sex / Ingrid Holme.