Women's health in Canada : critical perspectives on theory and policy / edited by Marina Morrow, Olena Hankivsky, and Colleen Varcoe.

Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Beyond gender matters / Colleen Varcoe, Olena Hankivsky, and Marina Morrow -- Part 1. Locating ourselves -- 1. 'Our bodies, our selves' in context : reflections on the women's health movement in Canada / Marina Morrow -- 2. More than age and biology : overhauling lifespan approaches to women's health / Olena Hankivsky -- Part 2. Theory and methods -- 3. Feminist methodology and health research : bridging trends and debates / Marina Morrow and Olena Hankivsky -- 4. Postcolonial feminist theoretical perspectives and women's health / Annette Browne, Victoria L. Smye, and Colleen Varcoe -- 5. Gender-based analysis and health policy : the need to rethink outdated strategies / Olena Hankivsky -- 6. Engendering evidence : transforming economic evaluations / Olena Hankivsky and Jane Friesen -- Part 3. The social determinants of health -- 7. Women's health and the politics of poverty and exclusion / Colleen Reid -- 8. Women's health at the intersection of gender and the experience of international migration / Bilkis Vissandjée, Wilfreda Thurston, Alisha Apale, and Kamrun Nahar -- 9. Cultures of dis/ability : from being stigmatized to doing disability / Lisa Diedrich -- 10. Negotiating sexualities in women's health care / Cynthia Mathieson -- 11. Mothering and women's health / Colleen Varcoe and Gweneth Hartrick Doane.

Part 4. Key issues in women's health -- 12. Women, drug regulation, and maternal/state conflicts / Susan C. Boyd -- 13. Women's voices matter : creating women-centred mental health policy / Marina Morrow -- 14. Between visibility and vulnerability : women and HIV/AIDS / Meredith Raimondo -- 15. Breast cancer : lived experience and feminist action / Sue Wilkinson -- 16. Selling 'the change' : a comparison of the dangers of hormone replacement therapies in profit versus National Health Care delivery systems / Brian Richter and Cindy Patton -- 17. Women's health and cardiovascular care : a persistent divide / Lynn E. Young -- 18. From global to local and over the rainbow : violence against women / Olena Hankivsky and Colleen Varcoe -- 19. Women's access to maternity services in Canada : historical developments and contemporary challenges / Cecilia Benoit, Dena Carroll, and Rachel Westfall -- 20. Relocating care : home care in Ontario / Pat Armstrong -- Contributors.

In recent years, healthcare professionals have recognized the distinctly different healthcare needs and concerns of men and women. Women's health, in particular, has come into its own in the last two decades. In Canada, however, there has been little available in the way of a general text on women's health. This volume works toward filling that gap by providing a resource for teaching and understanding women's health in this country. To lay out the methodological and theoretical foundations for their study, editors Olena Hankivisky, Marina Morrow, and Colleen Varcoe bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners from economics, anthropology, sociology, nursing, political studies, women's studies, and psychology. Contributors draw on the rich history of the Canadian women's health movement, providing analysis of that history and of the emergent theory, policy, and practice. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students as well as practitioners, the collection adopts an intersectional approach, looking closely at social factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and gender identity, and analysing how they relate both to each other and to women's health. Connections between the social, economic, and cultural contexts of women's lives and their physical, spiritual, and mental well-being are a primary focus. Providing a much needed resource for teachers, students, and practitioners of women's health in Canada, this comprehensive volume makes an important contribution to the literature.

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