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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 Gender-based analysis and health policy : the need to rethink outdated strategies / Olena Hankivsky -- 6.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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