Gender and Household Energy - the international context
| By | | | Download (click on the image) |  | | Description | The Anthology does not follow or represent any particular theoretical approach. What the collection attempts to do is to open up a number of key topics for discussion, to give examples of how social and political constructs define many of women's activity patterns at home and at work, and how this is reflected in their health status. In this way it is possible to move beyond the medical interpretations of health and disease which frequently exclude the social origins of much ill-health in women in concentrating exclusively on the effects of external agents of disease. Topics have been selected for their ability to highlight a potential health risk to large numbers of women in deprived socioeconomic circumstances. However, given the current dearth of medical research on issues related to women=s health, some of the materials used may fail to satisfy those accustomed to depending on strict epidemiological criteria.
| | File size | 17 kB | | Date | 17-09-2003 at 21h11 | |
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