by Lesley Doyal (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
Edition: 1995
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 19 Jun 1995
ISBN 10: 0333542053
ISBN 13: 9780333542057
Book Overview: 'An immensely useful review of a very wide range of up-to-date literature [which] will be of great interest to health planners, researchers and health politicians and activists...' - Mike Shepperdson, Journal of Development Studies