Suchergebnisse

PART I: THE POLITICS OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH Female genital mutilation: contesting the right to speak of women's bodies in Africa and the West / Nahid Toubia -- Albanian masculinities, sex-work and migration: homosexuality, AIDS and other moral threats / Nicola Mai -- The semantics and politics of childbearing and motherhood in contemporary African literature / Nana Wilson-Tagoe -- What difference did empire make? -- Sex, gender and sanitary reform in the British Empire / Philippa Levine -- Dangerous blood: mensturation, medicine and myth in early modern England / Margaret HealyPART II: THE REPRESENTATION OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH Remembrance of health lost: dis/figuring Africa in European AIDS writing / James N. Agar -- Vulnerable margins: the iconography of blood, dirt and disease in the early twentieth-century South African settler novel / Lynda Morgan -- Sex in a hot climate: moral degeneracy and erotic excess in The story of Jan Daraa / Rachel Harrison -- Some fundamental riddles of cholera: sex, sodomy and representations of the fundament / George S. Rousseau -- Behold the (sick) man / Michael WortonPART III: LEARNING FROM SICKNESS AND HEALTH Infectious social change: tuberculosis and exile among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala / Audrey Prost -- Angry women and the evolution of Chinese medicine / Shigehisa Kuriyama -- Reading gender in ancient Egyptian healing Papyri / Stephen Quirke -- René and the 'Mal du Siècle': a literary role model for the negotiation of problematic sexual identity in nineteenth-century Europe -- the case of Custine and Amiel / Caroline Warman -- Poetry, pictures and the sexual demographics of health / Deborah Kirklin

Bibliography of major works on the themes of anti-imperialism, nationalism, race, women, migration, Rastafarianism, carnival and calypso in English. The themes of anti-imperialism and nationalism have continued to engage West Indian writers since their genesis in the 1950s and 1960s