Abstract
This article describes the movement in women's health scholarship away from a mere critique of patriarchal practices to a forward-looking statement of new ideas. After a short review of some of the adverse consequences of taking maleness as normative and brief reference to a few of the current philosophical trends behind the shift of emphasis, examples are provided of the rethinking taking place in new understandings of eating disorders, parent–child relationships, and morbidity.
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