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Lesley Doyal draws on a wide range of disciplines to highlight the limitations of medical models in understanding global patterns of health and disease in women. Examining in detail the impact of sexuality, fertility control, reproduction, domestic labour and waged work on women's well-being, she shows how gender divisions in economic and social life affect their experiences of illness, disability and mortality. A concluding chapter illustrates the multiplicity of ways in which women around the world are challenging the threats to their health.
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Book Title: What Makes Women Sick
Book Subtitle: Gender and the Political Economy of Health
Authors: Lesley Doyal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24030-2
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Lesley Doyal 1995
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 292
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Politics and Gender