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Gender and the Social Construction of Illness, Paperback / softback Book

Gender and the Social Construction of Illness Paperback / softback

Part of the Gender Lens series

Paperback / softback

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Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook.

They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness.

SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich and imaginative work.' In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the authors add chapters on disability and genital surgeries.

They also update and expand their discussions of social epidemiology, AIDS, the health professions, PMS, menopause, and feminist health care.

For a creative, feminist-oriented alternative to traditional texts on medical sociology, medical anthropology, and the history of medicine, this is an ideal choice.

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