Medicalized Masculinities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781592130979)

When medicalizationOCothe characterization of human traits in terms of disease and ailmentOCofirst appeared as a concept in the 1970s, most social science gender scholarship focused on female or genderless bodies. The work on men, health, and medicine was scant and tended to depict masculinity as intrinsically damaging to men's health.
"Medicalized Masculinities" considers how these threads in scholarship failed to consider the male body adequately and presents cutting-edge research into the definition and regulation of masculinity by medicine. Renowned health and gender studies experts examine medicalized conditions such as balding, aging, and other dimensions of the life cycle in the tradition of the sociology of health and gender."

Author: Dana Rosenfeld
ISBN-10: 1592130976
ISBN-13: 9781592130979
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2006
Pages: 263
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.86d