Comparative Perspectives Symposium: Gender and Medical Tourism
Edited by Andrew Mazzaschi and Emily Anne McDonald
Journal of Women in Culture & Society
Vol. 36, No. 2, Winter 2011
Signs is at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. The journal publishes pathbreaking articles, review essays, comparative perspectives, and retrospectives of interdisciplinary interest addressing gender, race, culture, class, nation, and sexuality.
Table of Contents
Interrogating Medical Tourism: Ireland, Abortion, and Mobility Rights (pp. 275-280)
Mary Gilmartin and Allen White
Fertility Tourism: Circumventive Routes That Enable Access to Reproductive Technologies and Substances (pp. 280-289)
Sven Bergmann
Medical Tourism in the Caribbean (pp. 289-297)
Annette B. Ramírez de Arellano
“Almost Invisible Scars”: Medical Tourism to Brazil (pp. 297-302)
Alexander Edmonds
Surgeon and Safari: Producing Valuable Bodies in Johannesburg (pp. 303-312)
Andrew Mazzaschi
Medical Tourism: Reverse Subsidy for the Elite (pp. 312-319)
Amit Sengupta
Medical Tourism in the Backcountry: Alternative Health and Healing in the Arkansas Ozarks (pp. 319-326)
Justin M. Nolan and Mary Jo Schneider
Complicating Common Ideas about Medical Tourism: Gender, Class, and Globality in Yemenis’ International Medical Travel (pp. 327-332)
Beth Kangas
Nennu and Shunu: Gender, Body Politics, and the Beauty Economy in China (pp. 333-357)
Jie Yang
The Biopower of Beauty: Humanitarian Imperialisms and Global Feminisms in an Age of Terror (pp. 359-383)
Mimi Thi Nguyen
The Right to Fashion in the Age of Terrorism (pp. 385-410)
Minh‐Ha T. Pham
Moving, Sensing Intersectionality: A Case Study of Miss China Europe (pp. 411-436)
Yiu Fai Chow
“We don’t forget the old rice pot when we get the new one”: Discourses on Ideals and Practices of Women in Contemporary Cambodia (pp. 437-462)
Katherine Brickell
The Environmental Account of Obesity: A Case for Feminist Skepticism (pp. 463-485)
Anna Kirkland
