Ageing, the Body and the Gender Regime (eBook, ePUB)

Health, Illness and Disease Across the Life Course
Redaktion: Pickard, Susan; Robinson, Jude

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection fills an important lacuna by acknowledging the importance of understanding both gender and age when approaching illness experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429786532
• Artikelnr.: 57141656

Autorenporträt

Susan Pickard is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Soociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool. Jude Robinson is Professor in Health and Well-being at the Institute of Health and Well-being Social Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Embodying gender in the everyday: exploring space,
body-scrutiny and safety 2. Unscrambling Risk, Contesting Expertise: The
Case of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine 3. Bodies and boundaries in
three generations 4. Contested chronic conditions fused with medical
uncertainty: gendered perspectives 5. Reclaiming Menopause 6. Beyond
lipstick and woodwork. Why gender matters when living with dementia. 7.
"MEN ARE NOT WOMEN": BIOMEDICINE AND THE (HETERO)SEXING OF AGEING BODIES 8.
Toward an Intersectional Approach to Health in Later Life: Incorporating
Age Relations 9. Reproducing gender and smoking 10. Femininity and frailty
through the life course