Governing the female body : gender, health, and networks of power / edited by Lori Reed & Paula Saukko.

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2010.

vi, 310 pages ; 24 cm

Governing the female body : three dimensions of power / Paula Saukko and Lori Reed -- "It's down to you" : psychology, magazine culture and governing female bodies / Lisa Blackman -- Beyond pill scares? Internet discussions on genetic thrombophilia and gendered contradictions of bioindividuality / Paula Saukko -- Gender, pathology, spectale : internet addiction and the cultural organization of "healthy" computer use / Lori Reed -- Pink Ribbons Inc. : the emergence of cause-related marketing and the corporatization of the breast cancer movement / Samantha King -- Regulation through the postfeminist pharmacy : promotional discourse and menstruation / Joshua Gunn & Mary Douglas Vavrus -- Productive bodies : women, work and depression / Kristin Swenson -- 'The pill' in Puerto Rico and the mainland United States : negotiating discourses of risk and decolonization / Laura Briggs -- Bio-political media : population communications international and the governing of reproductive health / Ronald W. Greene and David Breshears -- Disciplining the ethnic body : Latinidad, hybridized bodies, and transnational identity / Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina -- "Doing what comes naturally"-negotiating normality in accounts of IVF-failure / Karen Throsby -- Sado/masochism and the re/production of femininity / Barbara Mennel -- Beyond XX and XY : living genomic sex / Ingrid Holme.

Includes bibliographical references and index.