Bradby, Hannah (2008) Feminism and the sociology of gender, health and illness. Sociology of Health and Illness .

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Abstract

This editorial considers how the study of gender and health has played out in the pages of the Sociology of Health and Illness over the past quarter century, paying particular attention to how a theory of gender has informed empirical work and the relevance of gender studies for the feminist challenge to sexism and the patriarchal order. Work in this journal on gender and health has considered the invisibility of women, grappled with the conflation of sex and gender and interrogated polarised binary thinking, attempting to use sociological approaches to the body and novel post-structural metaphors to analyse both gendered roles and their relationship with gendered bodies and states of health and illness.

Item Type:	Journal Item
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Sex discrimination in medicine, Sex differences (Psychology), Women -- Health and hygiene, Feminism and science
Journal or Publication Title:	Sociology of Health and Illness
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN:	0141-9889
Official Date:	2008
Dates:	Date Event 2008 Published
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Description:	Editorial for a virtual special issue of Sociology of Health and Illness.

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