National healths : gender, sexuality and health in a cross-cultural context /

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Imprint:London : UCL ; Portland, Or. : Cavendish Pub., 2004.
Description:xii, 232 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5528506
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Other authors / contributors:Worton, Michael, 1951-
Wilson-Tagoe, Nana.
ISBN:1844720179 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Standard no.:9781844720179
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Michael Worton
  • Overview / Nana Wilson-Tagoe
  • Ch. 1. Female genital mutilation : contesting the right to speak of women's bodies in Africa and the west / Nahid Toubia
  • Ch. 2. Albanian masculinities, sex-work and migration : homosexuality, AIDS and other moral threats / Nicola Mai
  • Ch. 3. The semantics and politics of childbearing and motherhood in contemporary African literature / Nana Wilson-Tagoe
  • Ch. 4. What difference did empire make? : sex, gender and sanitary reform in the British Empire / Philippa Levine
  • Ch. 5. Dangerous blood : menstruation, medicine and myth in early modern England / Margaret Healy
  • Ch. 6. Remembrance of health lost : dis/figuring Africa in European AIDS writing / James N. Agar
  • Ch. 7. Vulnerable margins : the iconography of blood, dirt and disease in the early twentieth-century South African settler novel / Lynda Morgan
  • Ch. 8. Sex in a hot climate : moral degeneracy and erotic excess in The story of Jan Daraa / Rachel Harrison
  • Ch. 9. Some fundamental riddles of cholera : sex, sodomy and representations of the fundament / George S. Rousseau
  • Ch. 10. Behold the (sick) man / Michael Worton
  • Ch. 11. Infectious social change : tuberculosis and exile among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala / Audrey Prost
  • Ch. 12. Angry women and the evolution of Chinese medicine / Shigehisa Kurlyama
  • Ch. 13. Reading gender in ancient Egyptian healing papyri / Stephen Quirke
  • Ch. 14. Rene and the 'Mal du Siecle' : a literary role model for the negotiation of problematic sexual identity in nineteenth-century Europe - the cases of Custine and Amiel / Caroline Warman
  • Ch. 15. Poetry, pictures and the sexual demographics of health / Deborah Kirklin.