A01=Annika Forssen
A01=Gunilla Carlstedt
Author_Annika Forssen
Author_Gunilla Carlstedt
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Feminism
Health
Sweden
Women
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- ISBN 9781860571367
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2018
- Publisher: Welsh Academic Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Women in Swedish Society is a groundbreaking study by two general practitioners, Annika Forssen and Gunilla Carlstedt, who believed that the medical profession and accepted medical science was inadequately responding to the health problems presented by their female patients.
Rejecting the tendency of the male-dominated medical profession to link women's symptoms with female psychological issues or reproductive biology, the authors undertook their own in-depth research, drawing on systematic, wide-ranging interviews with 20 carefully chosen subjects. Their goal was to identify how women's daily lives, in particular their personal circumstances and work experiences - both in salaried employment and in the home - impacted on their health.
Women in Swedish Society incorporates the detailed and intimate testimonies of these women. Through them, Forssen and Carlstedt illustrate how changes in female health and wellbeing reflect the radical changes in Swedish society during their lifetimes, which spanned the twentieth century. The authors also make comparisons with the situation of contemporary Swedish women, finding that despite the shift in social attitudes and improved opportunities for women, many issues surrounding power, class and division of labor as well as medical care remain unresolved.
Dr. Annika Forssen is a general practitioner and Associate Professor in Family Medicine at Umea University, Sweden. Dr. Gunilla Carlstedt is a retired general practitioner and PhD. The research presented here was originally published as a joint thesis in Swedish in 1999: Mellan ansvar och makt. En diskussion om arbete, halsa och ohalsa utifran tjugo kvinnors livsberattelser. In Women in Swedish Society this material has been substantially revised and updated. The English translation is by Rochelle Wright, Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois, and is published as part of Welsh Academic Press' Scandinavia and the Baltic - Transnational and International Challenges series edited by Professor Jason Lavery of Oklahoma State University.
