National healths : gender, sexuality and health in a cross-cultural context /
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| Imprint: | London : UCL ; Portland, Or. : Cavendish Pub., 2004. |
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| 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 |
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.
