Bodily subjects : essays on gender and health, 1800-2000 / edited by Tracy Penny Light, Barbara Brookes, and Wendy Mitchinson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover ; McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section One Embodied Citizenship; 1 The "Bone and Sinew of the Nation": Antebellum Workingmen on Health and Sovereignty; 2 Gendered Roles, Gendered Welfare: Health and the English Poor Law, 1871-1911; 3 Constructing Hygienic Subjects: The Regulation and Reformation of Aboriginal Bodies; 4 Shaping Student Bodies and Minds: The Redefinition of Self at English-Canadian Universities, 1900-60.

Section Two Defining and Contesting Illness5 Osteomalacia: Femininity and the "Softening of Bones" in Central European Medicine (1830-1920); 6 Disciplining Male Bodies: Infertility and Medicine in Germany in the Decades after the Second World War; 7 "Cherishing Hopes of the Impossible": Mothers, Fathers, and Disability at Birth in Mid-Twentieth-Century New Zealand; 8 Breaking Down Barriers: Women in the Ontario HIV/AIDS Movement before the Advent of Antiretroviral Therapy; Section Three Authority and Ideals.

9 Referred for Special Services: Children, Youth, and the Production of Heteronormativity at Alexandra Neighbourhood House in Post-war Vancouver10 The Heterosexual Nature of Health and Hygiene Advertisements in the Cold War Era; 11 Educating Doctors about Obesity: The Gendered Use of Pharmaceutical Advertisements; 12 Motherhood Gone Mad? The Rise of Postpartum Depression in the United States during the 1980s; 13 From Fixing to Enhancing Bodies: Shifting Ideals of Health and Gender in the Medical Discourse on Cosmetic Surgery in Twentieth-Century Canada; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.

English.

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