Research Catalog

Title

Diversity and women's health / edited by Sue V. Rosser.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rosser, Sue Vilhauer.

Description

vi, 294 pages; 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

Subject

• Minority women > Health and hygiene > United States
• Minority women > Medical care > United States
• Lesbians > Health and hygiene > United States
• Lesbians > Medical care > United States
• Older women > Health and hygiene > United States
• Older women > Medical care > United States
• Women with disabilities > Health and hygiene > United States
• Women with disabilities > Medical care > United States
• Women's health services > United States
• Cultural pluralism > United States
• Women > Health and hygiene
• Social justice
• Women's health services
• Women's Health
• Healthcare Disparities
• Social Justice
• Women's Health Services
• Femmes issues des minorités > Santé et hygiène > États-Unis
• Femmes issues des minorités > Soins médicaux > États-Unis
• Lesbiennes > Santé et hygiène > États-Unis
• Lesbiennes > Soins médicaux > États-Unis
• Femmes âgées > Santé et hygiène > États-Unis
• Femmes âgées > Soins médicaux > États-Unis
• Femmes handicapées > Santé et hygiène > États-Unis
• Femmes handicapées > Soins médicaux > États-Unis
• Diversité culturelle > États-Unis
• Femmes > Santé et hygiène
• Justice sociale
• Femmes > Services de santé
• Women > Health and hygiene
• Social justice
• Cultural pluralism
• Lesbians > Health and hygiene
• Lesbians > Medical care
• Minority women > Health and hygiene
• Minority women > Medical care
• Older women > Health and hygiene
• Women with disabilities > Health and hygiene
• Women with disabilities > Medical care
• Women's health services
• Frau
• Gesundheit
• Minderheit
• Gesundheitswesen
• United States

Genre/Form

Collected Work

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
• 0801892805

LCCN

2008936106

OCLC

• ocn276334750
• 276334750
• SCSB-1522843

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library