Gender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives

Contents

Contents Introduction Cheryl Krasnick Warsh t vii I: The Transmission of Health Information Confined: Constructions of Childbirth in Popular and Elite Medical Culture in Late-Nineteenth-Century Australia t Lisa Featherstone t 3 Eating for Two: Shaping Mothers’ Figures and Babies’ Futures in Modern American Culture t Lisa Forman Cody t 23 Advice to Adolescents: Menstrual Health and Menstrual Education Films, 1946–1982 t Sharra L.Vostral t 47 Controlling Conception: Images of Women, Safety, Sexuality, and the Pill in the Sixties t Heather Molyneaux t 65 All Aboard? Canadian Women’s Abortion Tourism, 1960–1980 t Christabelle Sethna t 89 Controlling Cervical Cancer from Screening to Vaccinations: An American Perspective t Kirsten E. Gardner t 109 The Challenge of Developing and Publicizing Cervical Cancer Screening Programs: A Canadian Perspective t Mandy Hadenko t 127 v Contents vi II: Popular Representations of the Body in Sickness and Health Hideous Monsters before the Eye: Delirium tremens and Manhood in Antebellum Philadelphia t Ric N. Caric t 153 From La Bambola to a Toronto Striptease: Drawing Out Public Consent to Gender Differentiation with Anatomical Material t Annette Burfoot t 175 Let Me Hear Your Body Talk: Aerobics for Fat Women Only, 1981–1985 t Jenny Ellison t 193 “The Closest Thing to Perfect”: Celebrity and the Body Politics of Jamie Lee Curtis t Christina Burr t 215 “Every Generation Has Its War”: Representations of Gay Men with AIDS and Their Parents in the United States, 1983–1993 t Heather Murray t 237 Bibliography t 259 Contributors t 297 Index t 301 ...