Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience Perspectives

by Clarke,Adele E.

• ISBN13: 9780415918466
• ISBN10: 0415918464
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-12-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This provocative collection incites a fundamental rethinking of women's health and healing and challenges readers to see fresh sites of action. It envisions transformations in women's health through the transdisciplinary lenses of recent work in feminist theory, cultural studies and technoscience studies. Contributors pursue new approaches to women's health through direct examination of theoretical interventions, strategies for destabilizing taken-for-granted research methods, and modes of (re)constructing experiences through searching the self and multiple selves--individually and collectively. Several authors confront the novel kinds of surveillance, commodification and stratification engendered by new world reproductive orders. Discursive constructions of "good" and "bad" mothers by race and class in the "American national family" are detailed. Other contributors disrupt traditional agendas for women's health in areas such as health reform, lesbian health and midlife. Throughout, enhancedrecognition of differences and complexities of women's knowledges, bodies, experiences and desires undergirds the project of revisioning. The editors' theoretical introduction and conclusion provide historical and material contexts which locate revisioning and emphasize fluidities in recasting women's health in the millennium.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Feminist Revisioning: Theoretical Speculations and Interventions	3	(116)
Revising, Diffracting, Acting	3	(46)
ADELE E. CLARKE
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order	49	(48)
DONNA HARAWAY
The Woman in the Flexible Body	97	(22)
EMILY MARTIN
Destabilizing Methods	119	(68)
One New Reproductive Technology, Multiple Sites: How Feminist Methodology Bleeds into Everyday Life	119	(17)
RAYNA RAPP
Naked Methodology: Researching the Lives of Women with HIV/AIDS	136	(19)
PATTI LATHER
La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina Health	155	(11)
DENISE A. SEGURA
ADELA DE LA TORRE
Whose Science of Food and Health? Narratives of Profession and Activism from Public-Health Nutrition	166	(21)
MARJORIE L. DEVAULT
(Re)Constructing Experience: Searching the Self	187	(44)
Warning Signs: Acting on Images	187	(15)
SHARON TRAWEEK
The Girl in the Cast	202	(19)
RUTH BEHAR
(Post)Colonial Psychiatry: The Making of a Colonized Pathology	221	(10)
FRANCOISE VERGES
Challenging New World Reproductive Orders	231	(72)
Public Pregnancies and Cultural Narratives of Surveillance	231	(23)
ANNE BALSAMO
A Study in Reproductive Technologies	254	(12)
VALERIE HARTOUNI
Will the "Real" Mother Please Stand Up?: The Logic of Eugenics and American National Family Planning	266	(17)
PATRICIA HILL COLLINS
The Social Construction of the "Immoral" Black Mother: Social Policy, Community Policing, and Effects on Youth Violence	283	(20)
BETH E. RICHIE
Revised and Disruptive Agendas for Women's Health	303	(56)
Rethinking Feminist Ideologies and Actions: Thoughts on the Past and Future of Health Reform	303	(21)
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
Agendas for Lesbian Health: Countering the Ills of Homophobia	324	(19)
JENNIFER TERRY
Midife Women's Health: Conflicting Perspectives of Health Care Providers and Midlife Women and Consequences for Health	343	(12)
NANCY FUGATE WOODS
Resisting Closure, Embracing Uncertainties, Creating Agendas	355	(4)
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
ADELE E. CLARKE
About the Contributors	359	(6)
Index	365