(University of Hyderabad, 2009)
Biswal, Madhllmita; Purendra prasad, N
The study attempts to explain how health discourses contribute towards maintaining
the gender inequality by constructing women's body and reproductive roles in particular
ways. In order to examine different health discourses, the study has focllsed OR the state
health discourse, as wen as the community discourse of health. The focus of these
discrete discourses not only provide different arenas for understanding health paradigms
vis-a.-vis women's body and gender roles, but suggests how these discourses are
interlinked through their patriarchal hegemony.