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What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health

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What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health - Doyal, Lesley
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In this important new book, 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 ...

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What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health 1995, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813522074

Trade paperback

What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health 1995, Red Globe Press, London

ISBN-13: 9780333542057

Paperback

What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health 1995, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

ISBN-13: 9780333542040

Hardcover