Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

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Rowman & Littlefield, 1997年5月30日 - 148 頁
In this timely and perceptive volume, Judith Lorber considers the interface between gender as a social institution on the one hand, and western medicine as a social institution on the other. Focusing on belief that illnesses are considered to be physical, Judith Lorber brings a feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics which have pervaded the study of both gender and medicine in recent times.

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Gender and the Social Construction of Illness Overview
1
Gender and the Social Transformation of the Body
3
The Social Construction of Illness
4
Gender and Illness
5
The Social Context
6
Overview of the Book
7
Women Get Sicker But Men Die Quicker Social Epidemiology
14
Have Money or Be a Boy
18
If a Situation Is Defined as Real Premenstrual Syndrome and Menopause
55
Medicalizing Menstruation
58
Hormonal Hurricane or HighEnergy State?
59
The End of Womanhood or the Beginning of a Valued Status?
62
Politics of PMS and Menopause
65
Transforming Diagnoses Back Into Womens Troubles
66
Summary
67
A Modern Plague Gender and AIDS
70

Good and Bad Social Pressures
22
Health by Choice or by Circumstance?
26
Protection and Danger
27
Women Live Longer But Not Better
30
Summary
32
The Doctor Knows Best Gender and the Medical Encounter
35
Gender and Physician Dominance
37
Doctors Handmaidens or Partners?
38
The Medical Encounter
40
The Gendered Sick Role11
41
Gender and Medical Practice
44
Do Women Physicians Have More Caring Practice Styles?
46
When the Doctor Is a Woman
48
Making Policy
50
Summary
51
AIDS by the Numbers
71
Social Paths of Transmission
73
The Gender Politics of Risk
74
The Politics of Prevention
77
To Test or Not to Test
79
Mothers With AIDS
81
Care Inside and Outside the Medical System
83
AIDS Is Everyones Trojan Horse
86
Summary
88
Treating Social Bodies in Social Worlds Feminist Health Care
94
Feminist Health Care
98
REFERENCES
103
INDEX
135
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Judith Lorber (born November 28, 1931) is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies at The CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is a foundational theorist of social construction of gender difference and has more recently called for a de-gendering of the social world. Lorber was actively involved in Sociologists for Women in Society from the early 1970′s. She developed and taught some of the first courses in the sociology of gender, women′s studies, and feminist theory at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, where she was the first Coordinator of the Women′s Studies Certificate Program in 1988-1991. She was Chair of the ASA Sex and Gender Section in 1992-93 and was awarded the Jessie Bernard Award in 1996 "in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society.

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