Gender, health, and popular culture [electronic resource] : historical perspectives / edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh.
Warsh, Cheryl Lynn Krasnick, 1957-
2011
GN298 .G45 2011eb
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Title
Gender, health, and popular culture [electronic resource] : historical perspectives / edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh.
ISBN
9781554582488 (electronic bk.)
9781554582174
Publication Details
Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 308 p.) : ill., port.
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GN298 .G45 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.4/61
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Warsh, Cheryl Lynn Krasnick, 1957-
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Gender, health, and popular culture.
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I: The Transmission of Health Information
Confined: Constructions of Childbirth in Popular and Elite Medical Culture in Late-Nineteenth-Century Australia / Lisa Featherstone
Eating for Two: Shaping Mothers' Figures and Babies' Futures in Modern American Culture / Lisa Forman Cody
Advice to Adolescents: Menstrual Health and Menstrual Education Films, 1946- 1982 / Sharra L. Vostral
Controlling Conception: Images of Women, Safety, Sexuality, and the Pill in the Sixties / Heather Molyneaux
All Aboard? Canadian Women's Abortion Tourism, 1960- 1980 / Christabelle Sethna
Controlling Cervical Cancer from Screening to Vaccinations: An American Perspective / Kirsten E. Gardner
The Challenge of Developing and Publicizing Cervical Cancer Screening Programs: A Canadian Perspective / Mandy Hadenko
II: Popular Representations of the Body in Sickness and Health
Hideous Monsters before the Eye: Delirium tremens and Manhood in Antebellum Philadelphia / Ric N. Caric
From La Bambola to a Toronto Striptease: Drawing Out Public Consent to Gender Differentiation with Anatomical Material / Annette Burfoot
Let Me Hear Your Body Talk: Aerobics for Fat Women Only, 1981- 1985 / Jenny Ellison
"The Closest Thing to Perfect": Celebrity and the Body Politics of Jamie Lee Curtis / Christina Burr
"Every Generation Has Its War": Representations of Gay Men with AIDS and Their Parents in the United States, 1983- 1993 / Heather Murray.

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