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Gender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives
Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (Ed.)
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Description for Gender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives
Paperback. Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures, customarily associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This collection includes topics such as: childbirth advice in Victorian Australia and Cold War America, menstruation films, Canadian abortion tourism, the Pap smear, the Body Worlds exhibition, and fat liberation. Editor(s): Warsh, Cheryl Krasnick. Num Pages: 330 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JF; MBNH; VFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards of beauty and health and generalized desires to achieve them. Today, genuine or self-styled experts--from physicians to newspaper columnists to advertisers--offer advice on achieving optimal health. 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 ... Read more
Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards of beauty and health and generalized desires to achieve them. Today, genuine or self-styled experts--from physicians to newspaper columnists to advertisers--offer advice on achieving optimal health. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
323
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
474g
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781554582174
SKU
V9781554582174
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99-15
About Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (Ed.)
Cheryl Krasnick Warsh is a history professor at Malaspina University College and editor-in-chief of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. She has published Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923; Drink in Canada: Historical Essays; The Changing Nature of Drink: Substance, Imagery and Behaviour, and several studies on women's health and tobacco and alcohol ... Read more
Reviews for Gender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives
``Krasnick Warsh's edited collection succeeds in providing a wide variety of interesting analyses that examine the historical intersections of gender, health, and popular culture.''
Rebecca Godderis, Wilfrid Laurier University
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Volume 29, number 2, 2012 ``The articles convincingly show how gender has influenced various aspect of health experiences, including the flow of information, the ... Read more
Rebecca Godderis, Wilfrid Laurier University
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Volume 29, number 2, 2012 ``The articles convincingly show how gender has influenced various aspect of health experiences, including the flow of information, the ... Read more