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OverviewHow a health disaster helped give rise to the feminist health care movement Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan E. BellPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9781592139187ISBN 10: 1592139183 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 15 August 2009 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Connecting Lives, Texts, and Social Change 1. A History of DES 2. Narratives and Lives: The Politics of Knowing for DES Daughters 3. Becoming a Mother after DES 4. Remapping DES Bodies 5. Power, Knowledge, and DES 6. Healthy Baby Girls Conclusion: Performing DES , Embodying a Health Movement Notes References IndexReviewsDES Daughters is a pleasure to read. In addition to Bell's sensitivity and intelligence, she brings the reader close to the people she writes about - we get to know the women in the book and their stories come across very lively and sympathetically. Phil Brown, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Brown University Susan E. Bell's history of the feminist DES movement - with its confrontations to seek voice; status in medical dialogues; and, whenever possible, answers - is informative, compelling, and important... Bell successfully recounts events that are often tragic and grim - their details not well enough known - and presents a feminist story that soars at times to heights of connection, creativity, and inspiration. - Affilia By acting as a bridge between activist and scientist communities, [Bell] lends her expertise as a researcher and scholar to the embodied health movement, and in doing so carries forth its tradition of collaborative knowledge production. Through Bell's thorough methodological explanation, she demonstrates the power of narrative analysis and provides a stunning example and invitation for other researchers to engage in this method. DES Daughters serves to educate and remind us as scholars and activists of the controversial technoscientific beginnings of much of the hormone-based therapies we take for granted in western culture. Through her engaging narrative, Bell demonstrates how DES Daughters and their allies have created an embodied health movement that takes their unfortunate suffering and uses it as a catalyst for producing embodied health knowledge alongside the medical community, laying the groundwork for important social change. - Science, Knowledge and Technology Newsletter, Sociological Society, Summer 2010 [The] narrative analyses are fascinating, not least because Bell provides in-depth examination of multiple factors creating the context of each narrative... She deftly employs narrative analyses of her interviews with DES daughters, a key NIH workshop, and an autobiographical documentary film to show how these concepts, discourses, and practices converge, diverge, and reemerge over time in different forms... The final chapter is excellent as a recap of the detailed data and arguments presented in the analytic chapters...Graduate students and scholars with deep interest in embodied health movements, women's health, and narrative analysis will find this a satisfying read. - Medical Anthropology Quarterly DES Daughters is a pleasure to read. In addition to Bell's sensitivity and intelligence, she brings the reader close to the people she writes about--we get to know the women in the book and their stories come across very lively and sympathetically. Phil Brown, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Brown University Susan E. Bell's history of the feminist DES movement--with its confrontations to seek voice; status in medical dialogues; and, whenever possible, answers--is informative, compelling, and important... Bell successfully recounts events that are often tragic and grim--their details not well enough known--and presents a feminist story that soars at times to heights of connection, creativity, and inspiration. - Affilia By acting as a bridge between activist and scientist communities, [Bell] lends her expertise as a researcher and scholar to the embodied health movement, and in doing so carries forth its tradition of collaborative knowledge production. Through Bell's thorough methodological explanation, she demonstrates the power of narrative analysis and provides a stunning example and invitation for other researchers to engage in this method. DES Daughters serves to educate and remind us as scholars and activists of the controversial technoscientific beginnings of much of the hormone-based therapies we take for granted in western culture. Through her engaging narrative, Bell demonstrates how DES Daughters and their allies have created an embodied health movement that takes their unfortunate suffering and uses it as a catalyst for producing embodied health knowledge alongside the medical community, laying the groundwork for important social change. - Science, Knowledge and Technology Newsletter, Sociological Society, Summer 2010 [The] narrative analyses are fascinating, not least because Bell provides in-depth examination of multiple factors creating the context of each narrative... She deftly employs narrative analyses of her interviews with DES daughters, a key NIH workshop, and an autobiographical documentary film to show how these concepts, discourses, and practices converge, diverge, and reemerge over time in different forms... The final chapter is excellent as a recap of the detailed data and arguments presented in the analytic chapters...Graduate students and scholars with deep interest in embodied health movements, women's health, and narrative analysis will find this a satisfying read. - Medical Anthropology Quarterly DES Daughters is an important contribution to the historical record on the devastating outcomes that can result from the medicalization of women's reproductive health, specifically pregnancy in the diethylstilbestrol (DES) case... This book will be especially helpful to present-day health activists and scholars, who will find inspiration from the knowledge and wisdom gained from these women. Gender and Society, October 2011 DES Daughters is a pleasure to read. In addition to Bell's sensitivity and intelligence, she brings the reader close to the people she writes aboutowe get to know the women in the book and their stories come across very lively and sympathetically. Phil Brown, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Brown University Susan E. Bell's history of the feminist DES movementowith its confrontations to seek voice; status in medical dialogues; and, whenever possible, answersois informative, compelling, and important... Bell successfully recounts events that are often tragic and grimotheir details not well enough knownoand presents a feminist story that soars at times to heights of connection, creativity, and inspiration. - Affilia By acting as a bridge between activist and scientist communities, [Bell] lends her expertise as a researcher and scholar to the embodied health movement, and in doing so carries forth its tradition of collaborative knowledge production. Through Bell's thorough methodological explanation, she demonstrates the power of narrative analysis and provides a stunning example and invitation for other researchers to engage in this method. DES Daughters serves to educate and remind us as scholars and activists of the controversial technoscientific beginnings of much of the hormone-based therapies we take for granted in western culture. Through her engaging narrative, Bell demonstrates how DES Daughters and their allies have created an embodied health movement that takes their unfortunate suffering and uses it as a catalyst for producing embodied health knowledge alongside the medical community, laying the groundwork for important social change. - Science, Knowledge and Technology Newsletter, Sociological Society, Summer 2010 Author InformationSusan E. Bell is the A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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