Women's Health: Readings On Social Economic And Political Issues

by Worcester, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780757508097
• ISBN10: 075750809X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-07-12
• Publisher: Kendall-Hunt

Summary

New! 4th Edition of Women's Health: Readings on Social, Economic, and Political Issues Nancy Worcester & Mariamne H. Whatley Fourth Edition 2004/580 pages/paper The readings are a representation of the exciting range of excellent resources now available on women's health issues. Over 140 articles on important topics, including: - Women and the Health Care System - Inequalities and Health - Images and Gender Roles - Women and Mental Health New articles, including: - A Century of Women's Health (1900-2000), by Office on Women's Health - Evaluating Online Health Information, by Kiki Zeldes - Ruling the Exceptions: Same Sex Battering and Domestic Violence Theory, by Gregory S. Merrill - Endometriosis: New Developments, by Andrea DuBrow

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Book Introduction	xiii
Women and the Health Care System	1	(76)
Sexism in Women's Medical Care	4	(4)
Mary A. Halas
PRO: Women's Health: Developing a New Interdisciplinary Specialty	8	(4)
Karen Johnson
CON: Women's Health as a Specialty: A Deceptive Solution	12	(6)
Michelle Harrison
Thinking About Women's Health: The Case for Gender Sensitivity	18	(2)
Amal J. Khoury
Carol S. Weisman
Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex Matter?	20	(4)
How to Tell Your Doctor a Thing or Two	24	(4)
Morton Hunt
The Gynecologic Exam and the Training of Medical Students: An Opportunity for Health Education	28	(3)
Judith Schmidt
Cadavers, Dolls, and Prostitutes: Medical Pedagogy and the Pelvic Rehearsal	31	(10)
Terri Kapsalis
Women's Health Events of the 20th Century	41	(5)
The Women's Health Movement in the United States: From Grass-Roots Activism to Professional Agendas	46	(6)
Sheryl Burt Ruzek
Julie Becker
Crossing Cultural Borders with ``Our Bodies, Ourselves''	52	(4)
Sally Whelan
Jane Pincus
Tales Out of Medical School	56	(4)
Adriane Fugh-Berman
Women in Medicine	60	(2)
Rebecca D. C. Perry
What Impact Have Women Physicians Had on Women's Health?	62	(3)
Judith Lorber
Confronting the Myths: Can America Halt the Slide Toward Health Care Meltdown?	65	(4)
Bob LeBow
Scientific Terms Explained	69	(3)
Adriane Fugh-Berman
Evaluating Online Health Information	72	(5)
Kiki Zeldes
Worksheet	75	(2)
Inequalities and Health	77	(58)
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference	79	(4)
Audre Lorde
There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression	83	(1)
Audre Lorde
Unlearning Racism	84	(1)
Ricky Sherover-Marcuse
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack	85	(3)
Peggy Mclntosh
Does Racism Harm Health? Did Child Abuse Exist Before 1962? On Explicit Questions, Critical Science, and Current Controversies: An Ecosocial Perspective	88	(4)
Nancy Krieger
Health Disparities in the United States	92	(3)
Cultural Humility versus Cultural Competence: A Critical Distinction in Defining Physician Training Outcomes in Multicultural Education	95	(4)
Melanie Tervalon
Jann Murray-Garcia
Minority Women and Advocacy for Women's Health	99	(6)
Shiriki K. Kumanyika
Christiaan B. Morssink
Marion Nestle
Health at the Margins	105	(3)
Gabrie'l J. Atchison
Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care	108	(5)
Vanessa Northington Gamble
Health and Indigenous People: Recommendations for the Next Generation	113	(2)
Michael E. Bird
La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina Health	115	(6)
Denise A. Segura
Adela de la Torre
Expanding Health Options for Asian and Pacific Islander Women	121	(1)
Ramani Sripada-Vaz
Sue Lowcock
Blazes of Truth	122	(2)
Susan Schnur
JAP: The New Antisemitic Code Word	124	(1)
Francine Klagsbrun
Strained Class Windows	125	(3)
Judith K. Witherow
Disability and the Medical System	128	(2)
Simply. . . Friend or Foe?	130	(5)
Worksheet	133	(2)
Gender Roles, Sex, and Marketing	135	(58)
Hazards of Hearth and Home	137	(12)
Lesley Doyal
Perspectives on Women's Occupational Health	149	(4)
Jeanne Mager Stellman
Male and Female Hormones Revisited	153	(2)
Mariamne H. Whatley
Intersexuals: Exploding the Binary Sex System	155	(3)
Kim Klausner
``Cultural Practice'' or ``Reconstructive Surgery''? U.S. Genital Cutting, the Intersex Movement, and Medical Double Standards	158	(11)
Cheryl Chase
The Picture of Health: How Textbook Photographs Construct Health	169	(9)
Mariamne H. Whatley
Treating Disease with a Famous Face	178	(2)
Alex Kuczynski
Manufacturing Need, Manufacturing ``Knowledge''	180	(2)
AMSA's PharmFree Campaign	182	(2)
Those Omnipresent Prescription Drug Ads: What to Look Out For	184	(1)
How to Read a Drug Ad	185	(8)
Worksheet	189	(4)
Menstruation	193	(32)
If Men Could Menstruate---A Political Fantasy	195	(1)
Gloria Steinem
Menarche and the (Hetero) Sexualization of the Female Body	196	(10)
Janet Lee
Female Adolescence: Puberty and Growing Up	206	(6)
Rose E. Frisch
Don't Just Go with the Flow	212	(5)
Teen Voices
The Selling of Premenstrual Syndrome: Who Profits from Making PMS ``The Disease of the 80s''?	217	(8)
Andrea Eagan
Worksheet	221	(4)
Women and Mental Health	225	(30)
Women and Mental Health	227	(6)
Marian Murphy
Mad Women or Mad Society: Towards a Feminist Practice with Women Survivors of Child Sexual Assault	233	(6)
Fiona Rummery
Co-dependency: A Feminist Critique	239	(4)
Bette S. Tallen
Prozac Use Up at UW	243	(2)
Amy Zarlenga
Born-Again Prozac: Not Worth the Cost	245	(1)
You, Too, Can Hold a Congressional Briefing: The SMCR Goes to Washington About ``Prementrual Dysphoric Disorder'' and Sarafem	246	(3)
Paula J. Caplan
Tell Us About Your Activism. . . : No Longer in Whispers	249	(6)
Karen Milstein
Worksheet	251	(4)
Intimate Partner Violence and Health	255	(46)
Continuum of Family Violence	258	(1)
Power and Control Wheel	259	(1)
Equality Wheel	260	(1)
A More Hidden Crime: Adolescent Battered Women	261	(3)
Nancy Worcester
The Unique Role Health Workers Can Play in Recognizing and Responding to Battered Women	264	(4)
Nancy Worcester
Medical Power and Control Wheel and Medical Advocacy Wheel	268	(1)
Battered Women of Color in Public Health Care Systems: Racism, Sexism, and Violence	269	(6)
Beth E. Richie
Valli Kanuha
Anishinabe Values / Social Laws Regarding Wife Battering	275	(1)
Ruling the Exceptions: Same-Sex Battering and Domestic Violence Theory	276	(5)
Gregory S. Merrill
Trans and Intersex Survivors of Domestic Violence: Defining Terms, Barriers, and Responsibilities	281	(5)
Diana Courvant
Loree Cook-Daniels
Women's Use of Force: Complexities and Challenges of Taking the Issue Seriously	286	(15)
Nancy Worcester
Worksheet	297	(4)
Alcohol and Tobacco Issues	301	(24)
What Is a Theory of Women's Smoking? and How Do Societies Benefit?	303	(2)
Lorraine Greaves
Women and Tobacco	305	(3)
Robert Weissman
Alcoholics Invisible: The Ordeal of the Female Alcoholic	308	(6)
Marian Sandmaier
Are College Students Alcoholics?	314	(3)
Aaron M. Brower
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Nation in Distress	317	(3)
Charon Asetoyer
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Class Related	320	(1)
Ruth Hubbard
The Twelve-Step Controversy	321	(4)
Charlotte Davis Kasl
Worksheet	323	(2)
Food, Body Shaping, and Body Projects	325	(60)
Nourishing Ourselves	326	(10)
Nancy Worcester
Fatphobia	336	(2)
Nancy Worcester
Mental Health Issues Related to Dieting	338	(3)
Nancy Worcester
We'll Always Be Fat But Fat Can Be Fit	341	(4)
Carol Sternhell
Weight and Health: Analyzing the Surgeon General's ``Call to Action''	345	(2)
Lynn McAfee
Pat Lyons
I'm Not Fat, I'm Latina	347	(1)
Christy Haubegger
Making ``a Way Outa No Way''	348	(13)
Becky W. Thompson
Regarding the FDA's Approval of Saline Breast Implants	361	(1)
Diana Zuckerman
Pretty in Ink: Conformity, Resistance, and Negotiation in Women's Tattooing	362	(14)
Michael Atkinson
Ouch!: You Call That Body Art?	376	(9)
Teen Voices
Worksheet	381	(4)
Sexuality and LBT Issues	385	(48)
Exposed at Last: The Truth About Your Clitoris	387	(2)
Jennifer Johnson
How Being a Good Girl Can Be Bad for Girls	389	(10)
Deborah L. Tolman
Tracy E. Higgins
The Orgasm Gap	399	(13)
Marcia Douglass
Lisa Douglass
Women's Liberation Is Coming	412	(2)
Jennifer O'Connor
A New Politics of Sexuality	414	(2)
June Jordan
Do Ask, Do Tell	416	(4)
Jennifer E. Potter
Health Care without Shame: Some Background for the Practitioner	420	(3)
Charles Moser
Trans Health Crisis: For Us It's Life or Death	423	(3)
Leslie Feinberg
Forbidden Fruit	426	(2)
Anne Finger
The Need for Intimacy	428	(5)
Jane Porcino
Worksheet	431	(2)
Fertility, Infertility, and Reproductive Rights / Freedom	433	(44)
For Native Women Reproductive Rights Mean . . .	436	(1)
Latinas for Reproductive Choice	437	(1)
Reproductive Issues Are Essential Survival Issues for Asian-American Communities	438	(2)
Connie S. Chan
Will the ``Real'' Mother Please Stand Up? The Logic of Eugenics and American National Family Planning	440	(9)
Patricia Hill Collins
Contraceptive Jelly on Toast and Other Unintended Consequences of Sexuality Education	449	(3)
Mariamne H. Whatley
Elissa R. Henken
`The Pill' May Not Mix Well with Other Drugs	452	(2)
Judith Willis
Eight New Nonhormonal Contraceptive Methods for Men	454	(2)
Elaine Lissner
Abortion Fact Sheet: Young Women and Abortion, The Shortage of Abortion Providers, and Who Has Abortions?	456	(2)
The Bad Baby Blues: Reproductive Technology and the Threat to Diversity	458	(3)
Lisa Blumberg
Discovering That You Are Infertile: One Woman's Experience	461	(5)
Naomi Pfeffer
Anne Woollett
Update to ``Discovering That You Are Infertile: One Woman's Experience''	466	(2)
Anne Woollett
Naomi Pfeffer
Grade A: The Market for a Yale Woman's Eggs	468	(3)
Jessica Cohen
Father Knows Baste	471	(6)
Tamar Abrams
Worksheet	475	(2)
Childbirth and Lactation	477	(44)
The Cultural Warping of Childbirth	479	(6)
Doris Haire
Routine Midwifery Care: Why Not Here?	485	(3)
Leah Hyder
Cesarean Section in the United States	488	(1)
Midwifery Facts	489	(1)
How Do Socioeconomic Factors Affect Disparities in Maternal Mortality?	490	(3)
Deborah Maine
Understanding Distress in the Aftermath of Miscarriage	493	(2)
Pamela A. Geller
What Is Postpartum Depression?	495	(3)
Leslie W. Tarn
Formula for Profit: How Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes Undermines the Health of Babies	498	(5)
Jennifer Coburn
From TV to Real Life: Lack of Education Causes Tragic Results	503	(2)
Jennifer Coburn
Nutrition, Breastfeeding, and Ethnicity: Understanding Maternal and Child Health Beliefs among New-Wave Immigrants	505	(6)
Caroline Westbrook Arnold
Blood and Milk: Constructions of Female Bodily Fluids in Western Society	511	(10)
Ros Bramwell
Worksheet	517	(4)
Aging, Ageism, Mid-life and Older Women's Health Issues	521	(44)
Ageing	523	(2)
Patsy J. Murphy
Women and Ageing: The Dreaded Old Woman Fights Back	525	(5)
Madge Sceriha
An Open Letter to the Women's Movement	530	(1)
Barbara Macdonald
More Selling of HRT: Still Playing on the Fear Factor	531	(19)
Nancy Worcester
Mariamne Whatley
Now the Truth Is Known	550	(1)
Amy Allina
Cindy Pearson
HRT: Overview	551	(2)
Hormone Therapy: Six Steps Toward a Better Future	553	(1)
Cindy Pearson
Phytoestrogens: A New Alternative for Women?	554	(3)
Adriane Fugh-Berman
Hormones for Men: Is Male Menopause a Question of Medicine or of Marketing?	557	(8)
Jerome Groopman
Worksheet	563	(2)
The Politics of Disease	565	(50)
Breast Cancer: Power vs. Prosthesis	567	(4)
Audre Lorde
Breast Cancer: The Environmental Connection	571	(6)
Rita Arditti
Tatiana Schreiber
National Women's Health Network Fact Sheet: Breast Cancer and Women of Color	577	(3)
It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Read This Before You Have a Mammogram	580	(1)
Surgeon Who Headed a U.K. Mammography Program Becomes One of Its Strongest Critics	581	(2)
Tamoxifen: Breast Cancer Prevention That's Hard to Swallow	583	(2)
Rita Arditti
Pinstripes to Pullovers: Learning to Live with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	585	(2)
Donna Kiefer
A Survey of Attitudes and Experiences of Women with Heart Disease	587	(9)
Elisa Marcuccio
Nancy Loving
Susan K. Bennett
Sharonne N. Hayes
Endometriosis: New Developments	596	(2)
Andrea DuBrow
Vagina Dialogue: One Woman's Battle with a Mysterious Illness	598	(1)
Tenaya Darlington
What to Ask Your Gynecologist	599	(3)
Molly M. Ginty
Waging War on STDs---and Drugmaker Apathy---with Microbicides	602	(3)
Elizabeth Suiter
With or without the Dam Thing: The Lesbian Safer Sex Debate	605	(4)
Carol Camlin
A Gendered Epidemic: Women and the Risks and Burdens of HIV	609	(6)
Peter Piot
Worksheet	613	(2)
Resource Information	615	(4)
Index	619