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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | National Women's Studies Association journal reader.
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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