Women's Health

by Ruzek, Sheryl Burt; Olesen, Virginia L.; Clarke, Adele E.

• ISBN13: 9780814207055
• ISBN10: 0814207057
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi	(4)
HELEN RODRIGUEZ-TRIAS
Preface	xv
PART I What Is Women's Health?	1	(46)
1. Social, Biomedical, and Feminist Models of Women's Health	11	(18)
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
ADELE E. CLARKE
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
2. Patterns and Puzzles: The Distribution of Health and Illness among Women in the United States	29	(18)
DEBORAH L. WINGARD
PART II What We Share and How We Differ	47	(66)
3. What Are the Dynamics of Differences?	51	(45)
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
ADELE E. CLARKE
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
4. The Last Sisters: Health Issues of Women with Disabilities	96	(17)
CAROL J. GILL
PART III Creating Women's Health: Health Practices, Working and Living Conditions, and Medical Care	113	(132)
5. Women, Personal Health Behavior, and Health Promotion	118	(36)
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
6. The Ergonomics of Women's Work	154	(19)
JULIA FAUCETT
7. "Less than Animals?": The Health of Women Workers in Garment Manufacture, Agriculture, and Electronics Assembly	173	(10)
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
8. Access, Cost, and Quality of Medical Care: Where Are We Heading?	183	(48)
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
9. A Note from Louise: Understanding Women's Health in Appalachia	231	(14)
JUDY M. PERRY
PART IV Culture and Complexities	245	(104)
10. Beauty Myths and Realities and Their Impact on Women's Health	249	(27)
JANE SPRAGUE ZONES
11. Old Woes, Old Ways, New Dawn: Native American Women's Health Issues	276	(24)
ANN METCALF
12. Asian/Pacific American Women and Cultural Diversity: Studies of the Traumas of Cancer and War	300	(29)
KAREN L. ITO
RITA CHI-YING CHUNG
MARJORIE KAGAWA-SINGER
13. Issues in Latino Women's Health: Myths and Challenges	329	(20)
SUSAN C.M. SCRIMSHAW
RUTH E. ZAMBRANA
CHRISTINE DUNKEL-SCHETTER
PART V Intersections of Race, Class, and Culture	349	(98)
14. African American Women's Health: The Effects of Disease and Chronic Life Stressors	353	(27)
NIKKI V. FRANKE
15. Women, Power, and Mental Health	380	(17)
LYNN WEBER
TINA HANCOCK
ELIZABETH HIGGINBOTHAM
16. Who Cares? Women as Informal and Formal Caregivers	397	(28)
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
17. Older Women: Income, Retirement, and Health	425	(22)
VIDA YVONNE JONES
CARROLL L. ESTES
PART VI Power and Social Control	447	(100)
18. Responses to Stigma and Marginality: The Health of Lesbians, Imprisoned Women, and Women with HIV	451	(22)
NANCY E. STOLLER
19. "You Can Be Safer, But...": Different Women, Many Violences	473	(47)
Introduction	473	(3)
ADELE E. CLARKE
LORA BEX LEMPERT
Women's Lived Experiences of Abuse	476	(10)
LORA BEX LEMPERT
The Battered Women's Movement	486	(6)
BRANDY M. BRITTON
Rape	492	(9)
BRANDY M. BRITTON
A Survivor Speaks about the Victim Input Program	501	(2)
SALLY PICKELS
Anti-Lesbian Violence	503	(7)
BEATRICE VON SCHULTHESS
Sexual Harassment	510	(10)
BRANDY M. BRITTON
20. The Ongoing Politics of Contraception: Norplant and Other Emerging Technologies	520	(27)
CHERI A. PIES
PART VII Challenges and Choices for the Twenty-first Century	547	(90)
21. Research to Improve Women's Health: An Agenda for Equity	551	(29)
DEBORAH NARRIGAN
JANE SPRAGUE ZONES
NANCY WORCESTER
MAXINE JO GRAD
22. Strengths and Strongholds in Women's Health Research	580	(27)
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
DIANA TAYLOR
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
ADELE E. CLARKE
23. Conversing with Diversity: Implications for Social Research	607	(37)
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
ADELE E. CLARKE
Contributors	637	(8)
Index	645