Gender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives
Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards of beauty and health and generalized desires to achieve them. Today, genuine or self-styled experts-from physicians to newspaper columnists to advertisers-offer advice on achieving optimal health. Topics in this collection are wide ranging and include childbirth advice in Victorian Australia and Cold War America, menstruation films, Canadia…
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- ISBN: 978-1-55458-217-4
- EAN: 9781554582174
- Produktnummer: 6326620
- Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 308 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.2 cm 473 g
- Gewicht: 473
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