Women's Health in Canada / / ed. by Colleen Varcoe, Marina Morrow, Olena Hankivsky.

• MitwirkendeR: Apale, Alisha,; Armstrong, Pat,; Benoit, Cecilia,; Boyd, Susan C.,; Browne, Annette J.,; Carroll, Dena,; Diedrich, Lisa,; Doane, Gweneth Hartrick,; Friesen, Jane,; Hankivsky, Olena,; Mathieson, Cynthia,; Morrow, Marina ,; Morrow, Marina,; Nahar, Kamrun,; Patton, Cindy,; Raimondo, Meredith,; Reid, Colleen,; Richter, Brian,; Smye, Victoria L.,; Thurston, Wilfreda,; Vissandjée, Bilkis,; Westfall, Rachel,
• HerausgeberIn: Varcoe, Colleen ,; Varcoe, Colleen,; Wilkinson, Sue,; Young, Lynne E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond Gender Matters -- Part One: Locating Ourselves -- 1. 'Our Bodies, Our Selves' in Context: Reflections on the Women's Health Movement in Canada -- 2. More than Age and Biology: Overhauling Lifespan Approaches to Women's Health -- Part Two: Theory and Methods -- 3. Feminist Methodology and Health Research: Bridging Trends and Debates -- 4. Postcolonial Feminist Theoretical Perspectives and Women's Health -- 5. Gender-Based Analysis and Health Policy: The Need to Rethink Outdated Strategies -- 6. Engendering Evidence: Transforming Economic Evaluations -- Part Three: The Social Determinants of Health -- 7. Women's Health and the Politics of Poverty and Exclusion -- 8. Women's Health at the Intersection of Gender and the Experience of International Migration -- 9. Cultures of Dis/ability: From Being Stigmatized to Doing Disability -- 10. Negotiating Sexualities in Women's Health Care -- 11. Mothering and Women's Health -- Part Four: Key Issues in Women's Health -- 12. Women, Drug Regulation, and Maternal/State Conflicts -- 13. Women's Voices Matter: Creating Women-Centred Mental Health Policy -- 14. Between Visibility and Vulnerability: Women and HIV/AIDS -- 15. Breast Cancer: Lived Experience and Feminist Action -- 16. Selling 'The Change': A Comparison of the Dangers of Hormone Replacement Therapies in Profit versus National Health Care Delivery Systems -- 17. Women's Health and Cardiovascular Care: A Persistent Divide -- 18. From Global to Local and Over the Rainbow: Violence Against Women -- 19. Women's Access to Maternity Services in Canada: Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges -- 20. Relocating Care: Home Care in Ontario -- Contributors