women novelists of color and the politics of medicine
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Stanford, Ann Folwell
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4508 - B
- Thesaurus
- romans, zwarte romans, ziekten, lichamen, geneeskunde, vrouwbeelden, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- In literary representations of physical and emotional states of illness and health, Stanford identifies issues related to public health, medical ethics, institutionalized racism, women's health, domestic abuse, and social justice that are important to discussions about how to improve haelth and health care. She argues that in either direct of indirect ways, the novelists considered here push to see health not only as an individual condition but also as a complex network of individual, institutionalm and social changes in which wellness can be a possibility for the majority rather than a privileged few. The novelists whose works are discussed are Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Leslie Marmon Silko, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, Bebe Moore Campbell, Sapphire, Ana Castillo, and Octavia Butler.