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  • © 1995

What Makes Women Sick

Gender and the Political Economy of Health

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  1. Lesley Doyal
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. In Sickness and in Health

    • Lesley Doyal
    Pages 1-26

  3. Hazards of Hearth and Home

    • Lesley Doyal
    Pages 27-58

  4. Safe Sex?

    • Lesley Doyal
    Pages 59-92

  5. Regulating Reproduction

    • Lesley Doyal
    Pages 93-124

  6. A Labour of Love

    • Lesley Doyal
    Pages 125-151

  7. Waged Work and Well-Being

    • Lesley Doyal
    Pages 152-175

  8. Abusing Women

    • Lesley Doyal
    Pages 176-196

  9. Women’s Movements for Health

    • Lesley Doyal
    Pages 197-233

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 234-280
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About this book

Lesley Doyal draws on a wide range of disciplines to highlight the limitations of medical models in understanding global patterns of health and disease in women. Examining in detail the impact of sexuality, fertility control, reproduction, domestic labour and waged work on women's well-being, she shows how gender divisions in economic and social life affect their experiences of illness, disability and mortality. A concluding chapter illustrates the multiplicity of ways in which women around the world are challenging the threats to their health.
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