Rural Women's Health / / Beverly Leipert, Belinda Leach, Wilfreda Thurston.

• VerfasserIn: Leipert, Beverly,; Leach, Belinda,; Thurston, Wilfreda,
• MitwirkendeR: Beausoleil, Natalie,; Beck, Matthias,; Beck, Rachel Rapaport,; Bernard, Wanda Thomas,; Brophy, James T.,; Burrill, Anne,; Bushy, Angeline,; Clow, Barbara,; Cross, Jennifer,; Csiernik, Rick,; Dabrowska, Ewa M.,; Dukeshire, Steven,; Dyck, Karen G.,; Etowa, Josephine B.,; Fiske, Jo-Anne,; Fletcher, Amber,; Forchuk, Cheryl,; Gerrard, Nikki,; Gilbertson, Michael,; Goodridge, Melanie,; Gorlick, Carolyne,; Hardy, Cindy L.,; Havelock, Joanne,; Haworth-Brockman, Margaret,; Heather, Barbara,; Hemingway, Dawn,; Hobson, David,; Illauq, Beverly,; Isfeld, Harpa,; Johns, Noreen,; Keith, Barbara,; Keith, Margaret M.,; Kubik, Wendee,; Landry, Tamara,; Leach, Belinda,; Leipert, Beverly D.,; Little, Jo,; MacLaughlin, Jamie,; MacNeil, Katriona,; Martz, Diane,; McIntyre, Lynn,; McLennan, Christina,; Moffitt, Pertice M.,; Montgomery, Phyllis,; Novik, Nuelle,; Paulsen, Kenneth S.,; Peters, Heather,; Pini, Barbara,; Porter, Marilyn,; Rangel, J. Cristian,; Rondeau, Krista,; Scruby, Lynn,; Skillen, D. Lynn,; Soldatic, Karen,; Stickle, Kelly L.,; Stiles, Deborah,; Sutherns, Rebecca,; Thien, Deborah,; Thurston, Wilfreda E.,; Vaillancourt, Anita,; Vladicka, Theresa,; Watterson, Andrew,; Whyte, Jayne,; Wiens, Juliana,; Wismer, Susan K.,; Woodland, Alanah,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.) :; 1 figure

The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food, drinking water, infectious disease, extreme environmental events, recreation, and for many, retirement residence. In rural areas themselves, women play...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Connecting Rural Women's Health across Time, Locales, and Disciplines
• PART ONE: Research, Policy, and Action
• 1. Looking Back and Forging Ahead: Rural Women's Health Research and Policy in Canada
• 2. Rural Women's Research and Action on the Prairies
• 3. Closing the Gap: Rural Women's Organizations and Rural Women's Health in Canada
• 4. Health Issues of Women in Rural United States: An Overview
• PART TWO: Health and Environment
• 5. Farm Work in Ontario and Breast Cancer Risk
• 6. An Exploration of Canadian Farm Women's Food Provisioning Practices
• 7. The Multiple Dimensions of Health: Weaving Together Food Sustainability and Farm Women's Health
• 8. Outside Assumptions: Research with the Old Order Mennonite Women in Ontario - An Exploratory Study
• PART THREE: Gender-Based Violence
• 9. Living with Their Bodies: Three Generations of Rural Newfoundland and Labrador Women
• 10. Intimate Partner Violence: Understanding and Responding to the Unique Needs of Women in Rural and Northern Communities
• 11. There's a Nightmare in the Closet!: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder as a Major Health Issue for Women Living in Remote Aboriginal Communities
• 12. Rural Women's Strategies for Seeking Mental Health and Housing Services
• PART FOUR: Population Health, Health Promotion, and Public Health
• 13. Being a Good Woman: The Gendered Impacts of Restructuring in Rural Alberta
• 14. Gender Politics and Rural Women: Barriers to and Strategies for Enhancing Resiliency
• 15. Defining Health: Perspectives of African Canadian Women Living in Remote and Rural Nova Scotia Communities
• 16. The Quality of Life of Elderly Ukrainian Women in Rural Saskatchewan
• 17. In the Dark: Uncovering Influences on Pregnant Women's Health in the Northwest Territories
• 18. Leisure, Rural Community Identity, and Women's Health: Historical and Contemporary Connections
• PART FIVE: Theorizing Rurality and Gender
• 19. Healthy Rural Bodies? Embodied Approaches to the Study of Rural Women's Health
• 20. Women, Chronic Illness, and Rural Australia: Exploring the Intersections between Space, Identity, and the Body
• 21. Health Policy and the Politics of Citizenship: Northern Women's Care Giving in Rural British Columbia
• 22. Well Beings: Placing Emotion in Rural, Gender, and Health Research
• Contributors