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

by Clarke,Adele E.

• ISBN13: 9780415918459
• ISBN10: 0415918456
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• 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
Revising, Diffracting, Acting	p. 3
The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order	p. 49
The Woman in the Flexible Body	p. 97
One New Reproductive Technology, Multiple Sites: How Feminist Methodology Bleeds into Everyday Life	p. 119
Naked Methodology: Researching the Lives of Women with HIV/AIDS	p. 136
La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina Health	p. 155
Whose Science of Food and Health? Narratives of Profession and Activism from Public-Health Nutrition	p. 166
Warning Signs: Acting on Images	p. 187
The Girl in the Cast	p. 202
(Post)Colonial Psychiatry: The Making of a Colonized Pathology	p. 221
Public Pregnancies and Cultural Narratives of Surveillance	p. 231
A Study in Reproductive Technologies	p. 254
Will the "Real" Mother Please Stand Up?: The Logic of Eugenics and American National Family Planning	p. 266
The Social Construction of the "Immoral" Black Mother: Social Policy, Community Policing, and Effects on Youth Violence	p. 283
Rethinking Feminist Ideologies and Actions: Thoughts on the Past and Future of Health Reform	p. 303
Agendas for Lesbian Health: Countering the Ills of Homophobia	p. 324
Midlife Women's Health: Conflicting Perspectives of Health Care Providers and Midlife Women and Consequences for Health	p. 343
Resisting Closure, Embracing Uncertainties, Creating Agendas	p. 355
About the Contributors	p. 359
Index	p. 365
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