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Gender Inequalities In Health Ellen Annandale

Gender Inequalities In Health By Ellen Annandale

Gender Inequalities In Health by Ellen Annandale


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Reflects critically upon the status of our knowledge about gender inequalities in health and develops an agenda for research. This work addresses a range of themes that are central to the development of the field. It focuses upon gender and health within industrialized nations including Britain, North America, Western and Eastern Europe.

Gender Inequalities In Health Summary

Gender Inequalities In Health by Ellen Annandale

'... a very useful addition to teaching material in the medical sociology/health studies field that will also be of value for teachers and students in women's studies.'
- Mary Ann Elston, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

'... Established wisdom about gender inequalities is due for critical questioning. This authoritative and challenging collection ... from some of the most respected names in the field ... will be essential reading for students and researchers in gender studies and medical sociology.'
- Professor Mildred Blaxter, University of East Anglia, UK

This state-of-the-art collection reflects critically upon the current status of our knowledge about gender inequalities in health and develops an agenda for future research. Leading experts address a range of themes that are central to the development of the field. These include recent theoretical and methodological developments in sociology and social policy, and the significance of changes in gender relations following wide-scale economic and social changes with respect to the mental and physical health status of men and women. The collection focuses upon gender and health within industrialized nations including Britain, North America, Western and Eastern Europe. It will be of particular interest to students and practitioners of sociology, health policy, health studies and gender studies.

About Ellen Annandale

Ellen Annandale is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Leicester University. She is particularly interested in the relationship between the sociology of gender, feminist theory and research on gender, health and illness, and is currently writing Feminist Theory and the Sociology of Health and Illness (Routledge, forthcoming). She is the author of The Sociology of Health and Medicine (Polity Press, 1998).

Kate Hunt is a Senior Research Scientist at the Medical Research Council's Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at Glasgow University. She is a social scientist whose main interests are in gender and health, and the social construction of gender. Other current research includes inequalities in health (by social class and ethnicity as well as gender), and lay perceptions of inheritance and their influence on health-related behaviours.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Gender inequalities in health
research at the cross-roads
Reinforcing the pillars
rethinking gender, social divisions and health
'Narrative' in research on gender inequalities in health
Socio-economic change and inequalities in men and women's health in the UK
Gender and inequalities in health across the life course
Trends in gender differences in mortality
relationships to changing gender differences in behaviour and other causal factors
Gender and socio-economic inequalities in mortality in Central and Eastern Europe
Index.

Additional information

GOR004032991
9780335203642
0335203647
Gender Inequalities In Health by Ellen Annandale
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Open University Press
19991216
224
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