Revisioning Women, Health and Healing

Adele E. Clarke is Associate Professor of Sociology and History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is author of DiscipliningReproduction: American Life Scientists and the "Problemof Sex" (1998) and co-edited Women's Health: Complexitiesand Differences (1997) with Virginia L. Olesen and Sheryl Ruzek. Virginia L. Olesen is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco.

"The names of Adele Clark and Virginia Olesen are familiar to anyone involved even peripherally in women's health. . . . In Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist,Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives, Clarke and Olesen are moving in a new direction. . . if they (essays) they do not always work to further the admittedly ambitious objective of the introduction, to completely re-theorize women's health, they often bring solid new perspectives to it." -- Catherine A. Warren, North Carolina State University, NWSA Journal"This excellent and timely book poses vital questions facing the women's health movement today, and proposes bold agendas for the future. This book is essential reading for both theorists and activists interested in exploring new approaches to this important aspect of women's lives." -- Dorothy Roberts author of Killing TheBlack Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty"Adele Clarke and Virginia Olesen have been challening the biomedical constraints of women's health and healing for many years. Their latest edited volume once again encourages us to reexamine the conceptual foundations of women's health in the United States and move beyond the old agendas, issues and practices. While previous works have expanded our understanding of the substantive issues in women's health, this volume focuses more on theoretical approaches. In particular, feminist theory, cultural studies, and technoscience perspectives are utilized by the contributors to offer a fresh vision of women's health." -- Contemporary Sociology, 31, 2

• FEMINISTS REVISIONING: THEORETICAL SPECULATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS Adele E. Clarke and Virginia Olesen -- Revising, Diffracting, Acting Donna J. Haraway -- The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order Emily Martin -- The Woman in the Flexible Body DESTABILIZING METHODS Rayna Rapp -- One New Reproductive Technology, Multiple Sites: How Feminist Methodology Bleeds into Everyday Life Patti Lather -- Naked Methodology: Researching Lives of Women with HIV/AIDS Denise Segura and Adela de la Torres -- La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina Health Marjorie L. DeVault -- Whose Science of Food and Health? Narratives of Profession and Activism from Public Health Nutrition (RE)CONSTRUCTING EXPERIENCE: SEARCHING THE SELF Sharon Traweek -- Warning Signs: Acting on Images Ruth Behar -- The Girl in the Cast Fran5~oise Verges -- (Post)Colonial Psychiatry: The Making of a Colonized Pathology CHALLENGING NEW WORLD REPRODUCTIVE ORDERS Anne Balsamo -- Public Pregnancies and Cultural Narratives of Surveillance Valerie Hartouni -- A Study in Reproductive Technologies Patricia Hill Collins -- Will the Real Mother Please Stand Up?: The Logic of Eugenics and American National Family Planning Beth Richie -- The Social Construction of the Immoral Black Mother: Social Policy, Community Policing, and Effects on Youth Violence REVISED AND DISRUPTIVE AGENDAS FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH Sheryl Burt Ruzek -- Rethinking Feminist Ideologies and Actions: Thoughts on the Past and Future of Health Reform Jennifer Terry -- Agendas for Lesbian Health: Countering the Ills of Homophobia Nancy Fugate Woods -- Midlife Women's Health: Conflicting Perspectives of Health Care Providers and Midlife Women and Consequences for Health Virginia Olesen and Adele E. Clarke -- Resisting Closure, Embracing Uncertainties, Creating Agendas