What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health

by Lesley Doyal

Book Overview

What makes women sick? To an Ecuadorean woman, it's nervios from constant worry about her children's illnesses. To a woman working in a New Mexico electronics factory, it's the solvents that leave her with a form of dementia. To a Ugandan woman, it's HIV from her husband's sleeping with the widow of an AIDS patient. To a Bangladeshi woman, it's a fatal infection following an IUD insertion. What they all share is a recognition that their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813522072
• ISBN13: 9780813522074
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"