ABSTRACT
This collection of essays addresses the broadening array of issues on the agenda of the women's health movements of the 1980s and 1990s, just as a previous collection, "Women and Health: The Politics of Sex in Medicine", gathered contributions from the earlier wave of the women's health movement in the 1970s. The papers in both volumes are selected from the "International Journal of Health Services", edited by Vicente Navarro. The essays in this volume were originally published in the 1980s and early 1990s. Together, they present a framework for understanding the struggles over women's health that have occurred in this time period, and provide specific analyses of women's health in relation to race/ethnicity and class, the work of health care, the health of women workers, international reproductive health, sexuality, AIDS, and public health policy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|68 pages
Women and Health: Frameworks
chapter Chapter 1|19 pages
Man-Made Medicine and Women’s Health: The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity
chapter Chapter 3|16 pages
Women, Health, and the Sexual Division of Labor: A Case Study of the Women’s Health Movement in Britain
part Section II|38 pages
Women and the Work of Health Care
part Section III|55 pages
The Health of Women Workers
chapter Chapter 7|14 pages
The Interactive Effect of Health Status on Work Patterns among Urban Puerto Rican Women
chapter Chapter 8|15 pages
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Health Effects of the Sexual Division of Labor among Train Cleaners
part Section IV|40 pages
Women’s Reproductive Health: Asia, Africa, and Latin America
chapter Chapter 9|18 pages
The Untold Story: How the Health Care Systems in Developing Countries Contribute to Maternal Mortality
part Section V|41 pages
Sexuality, Women’s Bodies, and Women’s Health
part Section VI|31 pages
Women and AIDS
chapter Chapter 13|13 pages
More than Mothers and Whores: Redefining the AIDS Prevention Needs of Women
part Section VII|65 pages
Gender, Social Policy, and Women’s Lives