Gender, Culture and Health - Marcus

Gender, Culture and Health 

CHAIR: GADSDEN, Gloria (NMHU) 

DISCUSSANTS: GADSDEN, Gloria (NMHU) Is Mammy Killing Us?: The Persistence of the Mammy Image on Television and the Potential Impact on Body Image 

SICARD, Stephanie A. (WMU) Women Truck Drivers: Life as a Woman Over the Road SALVI, Cecilia Maria (CUNY Grad Ctr) Redefining Our Identity, One Case at a Time 

MARCUS, Ruthanne (Yale U) and SINGER, Merrill (UConn) Assessing the PHAMILIS Syndemic of Homeless Women KARBHARI, Shilpashri (NMHU) African Americans, Health, and Inequality

 

ABSTRACT:

GADSDEN, Gloria (NMHU) Gender, Culture and Health. Panelists will use different methodological approaches to explore various connections across the nexus of gender, race, culture and health.

 

Session took place in Pittsburgh, PA at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2015.