National healths : gender, sexuality and health in a cross-cultural context / / edited by Michael Worton and Nana Wilson-Tagoe.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Worton, Michael, 1951-; Wilson-Tagoe, Nana.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 232 p., [6] p. of plates :; ill. (some col.)
• Other title: Female genital mutilation: contesting the right to speak of women's bodies in Africa and the West /; Albanian masculinities, sex-work and migration: homosexuality, AIDS and other moral threats /; The semantics and politics of childbearing and motherhood in contemporary African literature /; What difference did empire make? Sex, gender and sanitary reform in the British Empire /; Dangerous blood: mensturation, medicine and myth in early modern England /; Remembrance of health lost: dis/figuring Africa in European AIDS writing /; Vulnerable margins: the iconography of blood, dirt and disease in the early twentieth-century South African settler novel /; Sex in a hot climate: moral degeneracy and erotic excess in The story of Jan Daraa /; Some fundamental riddles of cholera: sex, sodomy and representations of the fundament /; Behold the (sick) man /; Infectious social change: tuberculosis and exile among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala /; Angry women and the evolution of Chinese medicine /; Reading gender in ancient Egyptian healing Papyri /; Rene and the 'Mal du Siecle': a literary role model for the negotiation of problematic sexual identity in nineteenth-century Europe - the case of Custine and Amiel /; Poetry, pictures and the sexual demographics of health /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1844720179 (pbk.); 9781844720170; 9781315066608 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Michael Worton and Nana Wilson-Tagoe.