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We are living through a period of striking, gender-related social change in the West as traditional distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being reconfigured in new, more complex ways. This has significant, but as yet largely unexplored, implications for health and illness. The long-established life expectancy gap between men and women appears to be closing in many affluent societies as men begin to ‘catch up’ with women. | Critical I Studies in Health and Societụ WOMEN S HEALTH AND SOCIAL CHANGE Ellen Annandale Women s Health and Social Change Traditional distinctions between the experiences of Western women and men are breaking down and being reconfigured in new more complex ways. The long-established life expectancy gap between men and women appears to be closing in many affluent societies. Many men appear to be far more body and health conscious than they ever were in the past and there are perceptible changes in women s health behaviours such as increases in cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Taking a comprehensive and persuasive historical analysis this book explores how social scientists and feminists have understood the relationship between women s lives and their health from the eighteenth century to the present day. Ellen Annandale argues that the old binary sex gender differences that used to characterise men s and women s lives have not so much been supplanted as combined with diversity in late modern neoliberal economies which profit from chronically unstable identities with significant implications for women s health. This book takes a step forward and presents a new feminist analysis of the state of women s health. Women s Health and Social Change will be of interest to academics and students working in sociology women s studies gender studies social medicine nursing and midwifery. Ellen Annandale is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester UK. Critical Studies in Health and Society Series Editors Simon J. Williams Gillian Bendelow This major new international book series takes a critical look at health in a rapidly changing social world. The series includes theoretically sophisticated and empirically informed contributions on cutting-edge issues from leading figures within the sociology of health and allied disciplines and domains. Other titles in the series include Contesting Psychiatry Social movements in mental health Nick Crossley Men and
