Governing the female body [electronic resource] : gender, health, and networks of power / edited by Lori Reed & Paula Saukko.

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9781441639134

9781438429526

Title:

Governing the female body [electronic resource] : gender, health, and networks of power / edited by Lori Reed & Paula Saukko.

Author:

Reed, Lori Stephens.

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1 online resource (vi, 310 pages)

Contents:

Governing the female body : three dimensions of power / Paula Saukko and Lori Reed -- "It's down to you" : psychology, magazine culture and governing female bodies / Lisa Blackman -- Beyond pill scares? Online discussions on genetic thrombophilia and gendered contradictions of personalised medicine / Paula Saukko -- Gender, pathology, spectale : Internet addiction and the cultural organization of "healthy" computer use / Lori Reed -- Pink Ribbons Inc. : the emergence of cause-related marketing and the corporatization of the breast cancer movement / Samantha King -- Regulation through the postfeminist pharmacy : promotional discourse and menstruation / Joshua Gunn & Mary Douglas Vavrus -- Productive bodies : women, work and depression / Kristin Swenson -- 'The pill' in Puerto Rico and the mainland United States : negotiating discourses of risk and decolonization / Laura Briggs -- Biopolitical media : population communications international and the governing of reproductive health / Ronald Walter Greene and David Breshears -- Disciplining the ethnic body : Latinidad, hybridized bodies, and transnational identity / Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina -- "Doing what comes naturally"-negotiating normality in accounts of IVF-failure / Karen Throsby -- Feminism's sex wars and the limits of governmentality / Barbara Mennel -- Beyond XX and XY : living genomic sex / Ingrid Holme.

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Subject Term:

Women -- Health and hygiene.

Women -- Psychology.

Women's studies.

Feminism -- United States.

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Reed, Lori Stephens.

Saukko, Paula.

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2010

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Summary

Drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality, this collection explores relations between the intimate governance of bodies and political governance. The contributors offer empirically grounded yet theoretically sophisticated case studies showing how gendered, racialized, and socioeconomic agendas structure medical and scientific practices. Developing and utilizing a poststructuralist feminist framework, the chapters investigate emerging gendered discourses and practices around health, such as breast cancer charities, lifestyle genetic testing, new reproductive technologies, and the development and marketing of various psychotropic and hormonal drugs. This will be a key reader for anyone interested in the social implications of cutting edge medical technologies.

Author Notes

Lori Reed is an independent scholar living in Washington, DC.
Paula Saukko is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. She is the author of The Anorexic Self: A Personal, Political Analysis of a Diagnostic Discourse, also published by SUNY Press, and Doing Research in Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Classical and New Methodological Approaches.

Paula Saukko and Lori ReedLisa BlackmanPaula SaukkoLori ReedSamantha KingJoshua Gunn and Mary Douglas VavrusKristin A. SwensonLaura BriggsRonald Walter Greene and David BreshearsAngharad N. Valdivia and Isabel MolinaKaren ThrosbyBarbara MennelIngrid Holme

Introduction: Governing the Female Body: Three Dimensions of Power	p. 1
I Mediated Self-Health
1 "It's Down to You": Psychology, Magazine Culture, and Governing Female Bodies	p. 19
2 Beyond Pill Scares? Online Discussions on Genetic Thrombophilia and Gendered Contradictions of Personalised Medicine	p. 40
3 Gender, Pathology, Spectacle: Internet Addiction and the Cultural Organization of "Healthy" Computer Use	p. 59
2 Privatization and the Body Proper-TY
4 Pink Ribbons Inc.: The Emergence of Cause-Related Marketing and the Corporatization of the Breast Cancer Movement	p. 85
5 Regulation through the Postfeminist Pharmacy: Promotional Discourse and Menstruation	p. 112
6 Productive Bodies: Women, Work, and Depression	p. 134
III Transnational Body Politics
7 "The Pill" in Puerto Rico and the Mainland United States: Negotiating Discourses of Risk and Decolonization	p. 159
8 Biopolitical Media: Population, Communications International, and the Governing of Reproductive Health	p. 186
9 Disciplining the Ethnic Body: Latinidad, Hybridized Bodies, and Transnational Identity	p. 206
IV Science, Nature and Gender
10 "Doing What Comes Naturallyà" Negotiating Normality in Accounts of IVF-Failure	p. 233
11 Feminism's Sex Wars and the Limits of Governmentality	p. 253
12 Beyond XX and XY: Living Genomic Sex	p. 271
Contributors	p. 295
Index	p. 299

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