Exploring the Dirty Side of Women's Health

ISBN 10: 0415383250 / ISBN 13: 9780415383257

Published by Routledge, 2006

About this Item

Using the concept of pollution, this book highlights how women and health issues are categorised, and health workers and women are confined to roles and places defined as socially appropriate. It explores practices, such as childbirth and midwifery, social practices around breastfeeding, miscarriages and termination of pregnancy, and more. Editor(s): Kirkham, Mavis J. Num Pages: 320 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: MQ; VFDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476. . 2006. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring the Dirty Side of Women's Health
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415383250
• ISBN 13: 9780415383257
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In this book, a team of international contributors examine bodies, leakage and boundaries, illuminating the contradictions and dilemmas in women’s healthcare.

Using the concept of pollution, this book highlights how women and health issues are categorised, and health workers and women are confined to roles and places defined as socially appropriate. The book explores in-depth current and historical practices, such as:

• childbirth and midwifery practice
• policies and social practices around breastfeeding
• gynaecological nursing, female incontinence and sexually transmitted infections
• miscarriages and termination of pregnancy.

Addressing things out of place, from the idea of ‘dirty work’ to feeling ‘dirty’, from diagnoses that disrupt our self-image to beliefs and practices which undermine health service provision, this book uses the contradictions in our thinking around pollution and power to stimulate thinking around women’s health.

About the Author

Mavis Kirkham is Professor of Midwifery at the University of Sheffield. Here current research interests are in why midwives leave the service, and why some of them stay. She has edited three other books in the field.