Bodily Subjects: Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000 Volume 42

by Tracy Penny Light, Barbara Brookes, Wendy Mitchinson

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From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the streets of Toronto in the 1990s, Bodily Subjects explores the historical entanglement between gender and health to expose how ideas of health - a concept whose meanings we too often assume to understand - are embedded in assumptions about femininity and masculinity. These essays expand the conversation on...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0773544143

ISBN13:9780773544147

Release Date:February 2015

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Length:408 Pages

Weight:1.58 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"

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