Women's Health in Canada /

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

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 wo...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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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 Gender-Based Analysis and Health Policy: The Need to Rethink Outdated Strategies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

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