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Women's health in Canada : critical perspectives on theory and policy
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Women's health in Canada : critical perspectives on theory and policy

Author: Olena Hankivsky; Colleen Varcoe; Marina Helen Morrow
Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume fills a gap in Canadian healthcare scholarship by providing a resource for teaching and understanding women's health in this country.

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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Olena Hankivsky; Colleen Varcoe; Marina Helen Morrow
ISBN: 9780802039392 0802039391
OCLC Number: 77525363
Description: ix, 557 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments --
Introduction : Beyond gender matters / Colleen Varcoe, Olena Hankivsky, and Marina Morrow --
pt. 1. Locating ourselves --
1. ʹOur bodies, our selvesʹ 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 --
pt. 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 Gender-based analysis and health policy : the need to rethink outdated strategies / Olena Hankivsky --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 --
pt. 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. pt. 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 ʹthe changeʹ : 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.
Responsibility: edited by Marina Morrow, Olena Hankivsky, and Colleen Varcoe.
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