@article{438553,
      author = {Warsh, Cheryl Lynn Krasnick,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438553},
      title = {Gender, health, and popular culture historical  perspectives / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Wilfrid Laurier University Press,},
      abstract = {Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures,  customarily associated with strength in men and beauty in  women. Educated or self-styled experts, ranging from  physicians to newspaper columnists to advertisers, offer  advice on achieving optimal health. Historically, gendered  concepts of health were transmitted through visual  representations of the ideal female and male bodies, with  media images resulting in the absorption of universal  standards of beauty and health and generalized desires to  achieve them. Topics in this collection are wide ranging  and include childbirth advice in Victorian Australia and  Cold War America, menstruation films, Canadian abortion  tourism, the Pap smear, the Body Worlds exhibition, and fat  liberation. Masculinity is explored among drunkards in  antebellum Philadelphia and family memoirs during the 1980s  AIDS epidemic. Seemingly objective public health advisories  are shown to be as influenced by commercial interests,  class, gender, and other social differentiations.},
      recid = {438553},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 308 p.) :},
      address = {Waterloo, Ont. :},
      year = {2011},
}