Revisioning women, health and healing : feminist, cultural, and technoscience perspectives / edited by Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen. - New York : Routledge, 1999. - x, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Feminist revisioning : theoretical speculations and interventions -- Revising, diffracting, acting / Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen -- The virtual speculum in the new world order / Donna Haraway -- The woman in the flexible body / Emily Martin -- Destabilizing methods -- One new reproductive technology, multiple sites : how feminist methodology bleeds into everyday life / Rayna Rapp -- Naked methodology : researching the lives of women with HIV/AIDS / Patti Lather -- La sufrida : contradictions of acculturation and gender in Latina health / Denise A. Segura and Adela de la Torre -- Whose science of food and health? : narratives of profession and activism from public-health nutrition / Marjorie L Devault -- (Re)constructing experience : searching the self -- Warning signs : acting on images / Sharon Traweek -- The girl in the cast / Ruth Behar -- (Post)colonial psychiatry : the making of a colonized pathology / Francoise Verges -- Challenging new world reproductive orders -- Public pregnancies and cultural narratives of surveillance / Anne Balsamo -- A study in reproductive technologies / Valerie Hartouni -- Will the "real" mother please stand up? : the logic of eugenics and American national family planning / Valerie Hartouni -- Will the "real" mother please stand up? : the logic of eugenics and American national family planning / Patricia Hill Collins -- The social construction of the "immoral" Black mother : social policy, community policing, and effects on youth violence / Beth E. Richie -- Revised and disruptive agendas for women's health -- Rethinking feminist ideologies and actions : thoughts on the past and future of health reform / Sheryl Burt Ruzek -- Agendas for lesbian health : countering the ills of homophobia / Jennifer Terry -- Midlife women's health : conflicting perspectives of health care providers and midlife women and consequences for health / Nancy Fugate Woods -- Resisting closure, embracing uncertainties, creating agendas / Virginia L. Olesen and Adele E. Clarke.

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Women--Health and hygiene--Sociological aspects.--United States
Women's health services--Political aspects--United States.
Feminism--Health aspects--United States.
Women's Health.

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