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Diversity and women's health /
- Title
- Diversity and women's health / edited by Sue V. Rosser.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Rosser, Sue Vilhauer.
- Description
- vi, 294 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- National women's studies association journal reader
- Uniform Title
- National Women's Studies Association journal reader.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : moving diversity from the margins to the center of women's health / Sue V. Rosser -- The reproductive health and sexual rights of women of color : still building a movement / Lynn Roberts, Loretta Ross, and M. Bahati Kuumba -- "Hold your head up and stick out your chin" : community health and women's health in Mound Bayou, Mississippi / Jennifer Nelson -- Beyond pro-choice versus pro-life : women of color and reproductive justice / Andrea Smith -- Because words are not enough : Latina re-visionings of transnational collaborations using health promotion for gender justice and social change / Ester R. Shapiro -- Including every woman : the all-embracing "we" of Our bodies, ourselves / Zobeida E. Bonilla -- Reexamining gender and sexual orientation : revisioning the representation of queer and trans people in the 2005 edition of Our bodies, ourselves / Elizabeth Sarah Lindsey -- Ignored, overlooked, or subsumed : research on lesbian health and health care / Sue V. Rosser -- When does menopause occur, and how long does it last? Wrestling with age- and time-based conceptualizations of reproductive aging / Heather E. Dillaway -- What have we learned? An historical view of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research / Alice J. Dan -- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) : getting to the heart of the politics of women's health? / Nancy Worcester -- Aged mothers, aging daughters / Sondra M. Brandler -- Old age and ageism, impairment and ableism : exploring the conceptual and material connections / Christine Overall -- Res(scrip)ting feminist theater through disability theater : selections from the DisAbility Project / Ann M. Fox and Joan Lipkin -- Breasts, blood, and the Royal V : challenges of revising anatomy and periods for the 2005 edition of Our bodies, ourselves / Marianne McPherson -- Medicine and women's studies : possibilities for enhancing women's health care / Adriana Cavalcanti de Aguiar -- Putting our heads together : academic and feminist approaches to studying the health of women workers / Karen Messing.
- ISBN
- 9780801892806 (alk. paper)
- 0801892805 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008936106
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library