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

London : UCL Press : Cavendish Pub., 2004.

xii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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 Healy -- PART 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 Worton -- PART 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.