Helsinki meeting

The third Gender, Body and Health Network Meeting, called Dimensions of Pain, held in September 17-18, 2009 was organized by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland.

Programme
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Abstracts
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Chris Bingefors - Epidemiology of self-reported headache, musculoskeletal pain and use of analgesics in Sweden – a gender perspective

Genevieve Brackins - Violence, Gender, & Culture’s Observation: Understanding the Political Technology of the Feminized Body-in-Pain in Contemporary U.S. Society

Jenny Gleisner - The Good and Normal Pain

Hannele Harjunen - “Obesity” as a Symbolic Illness and Gendered Bodies: Creating a Troubled Social Group?

Minae Inahara - The Voice of Pain: The Semiotic and Embodied Subjectivity

Denise Malmberg - Pain and Disability

Hildur Kalman & Naomi Scheman - Inflecting Pain

Renita Sörensdotter - Pain and sex(uality) among women suffering from vestibulitis

Jill Trenholm - Battles on Women’s Bodies. War, rape and traumatisation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo