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  Title

  Diversity and women's health

  Author

  Rosser, Sue V.  

  Publisher:

  Johns Hopkins University Press,

  Pub date:

  c2009.

  Physical description

  vi, 294 p. ; 23 cm.

  ISBN:

  9780801892806

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Aurora College Yellowknife Campus.
  

  • 9780801892806
  • Holdings

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    Aurora College Yellowknife Campus	Copies	Material	Location
    RG 110 .D49 2009	1	Book	Main collection

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  Diversity and women's health
  Rosser, Sue V.
  

  Local LC call number:

  RG 110 .D49 2009

  Title:

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

  Publication info:

  Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009.

  Physical description:

  vi, 294 p. ; 23 cm.

  Series Statement:

  (National women's studies association journal reader)

  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 revisionings 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.

  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.

  Held by:

  COL-YK

  Subject term:

  Minority women--Health and hygiene.

  Subject term:

  Minority women--Medical care.

  Subject term:

  Women's health services.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Rosser, Sue V.

  Holdings:

  RG 110 .D49 2009