Gender and the Social Construction of Illness by Lorber, Judith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Series Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Gender and the Social Construction of Illness: Overview

Sex Differences and Gender Statuses The Social Construction of Illness The Social Context Overview of the Book

Chapter 2 Women Get Sicker, but Men Die Quicker: Social Epidemiology

Birthing and Getting Born: Have Money or Be a Boy Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Good and Bad Social Pressures Adulthood: Health by Choice or by Circumstances? Work and Family: Protection and Danger Old Age: Women Live Longer but Not Better Dying: Gendered Death Dips Summary

Chapter 3 Hierarchies in Health Care: Patients, Professionals, and Gender

Hierarchies of Heath Care Providers Nurses: Doctor’s Handmaidens or Partners? Gender and Physicians’ Practice Styles Are Women Doctors Better for Women Patients? Can Women Doctors Change Health Care? Summary

Chapter 4 Gender and Disability: Contradictions and Status Dilemmas

Gender Contradictions in Disability Gendered Caregiving Gender and Altruism A Man but Not a Man, a Woman but Not a Woman Toward a Continuum of Bodiedness Summary

Chapter 5 If a Situation Is Defined as Real: Premenstrual Syndrome and Menopause

Medicalized Menstruation Cultural Constructions of Menstruation Ritual Menstruation Emotional Menstruation PMS: Hormonal Hurricane or High Energy State? Menopause: The End of Womanhood or the Beginning of a Valued Status? Politics of PMS and Menopause Transforming Diagnoses Back into Women’s Troubles Summary

Chapter 6 Genital Surgeries: Gendering Bodies

Female Ritual Genital Surgery Male Ritual and Medical Genital Surgery Genital Surgery on Intersexuals Politics of Genital Surgery Summary

Chapter 7 A Modern Plague: Gender and AIDS

AIDS by the Numbers Social Paths of Transmission Safer Sex The Gender Politics of Risk and Prevention Mother-to-Child Transmission Living with AIDS “AIDS Is Everyone’s Trojan Horse” Summary

Chapter 8 Healing Social Bodies in Social Worlds: Feminist Health Care

Social Contingencies of Health Care Delivery Women’s and Men’s Health Movements Participatory Medical Encounters Being a Patient Making Changes Summary

References Index About the Authors