* What is the relevance of feminist ideas for understanding women's experiences of
disability?* How can the social model of disability be developed theoretically?* What are the …

Taking as its point of departure the contested nature of the body, in mainstream theory and
the sociology of health and illness alike, this paper seeks, albeit tentatively, to chart a critical …

This book is called The Politics ofPostmodernity. A simpler, less ambitious title would have
been Politics in Postmodernity. That title would not have been misleading since the main …

While body modification might generally seem to take the form of denaturalizing a biological
given, this article looks at the same practice as normalizing the always already unstable …

The paper reports findings from a European study on experts' perceptions of reproductive
genetics, and explores the notion of experts as 'genetic story tellers' and producers of …

David Harvey's recent book, Justice, nature and the geography of difference (JNGD),
engages with a central philosophical debate that continues to dominate human geography …

It is not just women's bodies which can pose risks to the foetus but also those of men, with
the quality of sperm playing an important role in foetal health. This article assesses why …

The thrust of this thesis is summarized by the following questions: How does contemporary
Irish poetry migrate from traditional conceptions of identity drawn on by the cultural …

This is an ethnographic study of a fertility unit. It is informed by feminist approaches to
research. This study explores how the experience of infertility and the social responses it …

Given that men characteristically delay seeking health care, little attention has been paid to
the characteristics of health care services which are attractive to men. In this paper we …