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Bradby, Hannah (2008) Feminism and the sociology of gender, health and illness. Sociology of Health and Illness . ISSN 0141-9889

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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.

References:

Annandale, E. (1998) The Sociology of Health and Medicine: A critical introduction. Polity Press.
Courtenay, W. H. (2000) Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health, Social Science and Medicine 50, 10, 1385-401.
Humm, M. (ed.) (1992) Feminisms. A Reader. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Maynard, M. (1990) The re-shaping of sociology? Trends in the study of gender, Sociology, 24, 269-90.

URI:

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/636

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