Women's Health in Canada

by Morrow, Marina; Hankivisky, Olena; Varcoe, Colleen, Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9780802096388
• ISBN10: 0802096387
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-03
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr
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Summary

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

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Beyond Gender Matters	p. 3
Locating Ourselves
'Our Bodies, Our Selves' in Context: Reflections on the Women's Health Movement in Canada	p. 33
More than Age and Biology: Overhauling Lifespan Approaches to Women's Health	p. 64
Theory and Methods
Feminist Methodology and Health Research: Bridging Trends and Debates	p. 93
Postcolonial Feminist Theoretical Perspectives and Women's Health	p. 124
Gender-Based Analysis and Health Policy: The Need to Rethink Outdated Strategies	p. 143
Engendering Evidence: Transforming Economic Evaluations	p. 169
The Social Determinants of Health
Women's Health and the Politics of Poverty and Exclusion	p. 199
Women's Health at the Intersection of Gender and the Experience of International Migration	p. 221
Cultures of Dis/ability: From Being Stigmatized to Doing Disability	p. 244
Negotiating Sexualities in Women's Health Care	p. 272
Mothering and Women's Health	p. 297
Key Issues in Women's Health
Women, Drug Regulation, and Maternal/State Conflicts	p. 327
Women's Voices Matter: Creating Women-Centred Mental Health Policy	p. 355
Between Visibility and Vulnerability: Women and HIV/AIDS	p. 380
Breast Cancer: Lived Experience and Feminist Action	p. 408
Selling 'The Change': A Comparison of the Dangers of Hormone Replacement Therapies in Profit versus National Health Care Delivery Systems	p. 434
Women's Health and Cardiovascular Care: A Persistent Divide	p. 456
From Global to Local and Over the Rainbow: Violence Against Women	p. 477
Women's Access to Maternity Services in Canada: Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges	p. 507
Relocating Care: Home Care in Ontario	p. 528
Contributors	p. 555
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