Diversity and women's health /

Essays in this collection highlight the disparities in diagnosis and treatment among women because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and age from both medical and women's studies perspectives.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rosser, Sue Vilhauer
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Series:National Women's Studies Association journal reader.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : moving diversity from the margins to the center of women's health
  • The reproductive health and sexual rights of women of color : still building a movement
  • "Hold your head up and stick out your chin" : community health and women's health in Mound Bayou, Mississippi
  • Beyond pro-choice versus pro-life : women of color and reproductive justice
  • Because words are not enough : Latina re-visionings of transnational collaborations using health promotion for gender justice and social change
  • Including every woman : the all-embracing "we" of our bodies, ourselves
  • Reexamining gender and sexual orientation : revisioning the representation of queer and trans people in the 2005 edition of Our bodies, ourselves
  • Ignored, overlooked, or subsumed : research on lesbian health and health care
  • When does menopause occur, and how long does it last? Wrestling with age- and time-based conceptualizations of reproductive aging
  • What have we learned? An historical view of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
  • Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) : getting to the heart of the politics of women's health?
  • Aged mothers, aging daughters
  • Old age and ageism, impairment and ableism : exploring the conceptual and material connections
  • Res(scrip)ting feminist theater through disability theater : selections from the DisAbility Project
  • Breasts, blood, and the Royal V : challenges of revising anatomy and periods for the 2005 edition of Our bodies, ourselves
  • Medicine and women's studies : possibilities for enhancing women's health care
  • Putting our heads together : academic and feminist approaches to studying the health of women workers