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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosser, Sue Vilhauer.

Series:

National Women's Studies Association journal reader

A National Women's Studies Association journal reader

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority women--Health and hygiene.

Minority women--Medical care.

Women's health services.

Women's Health--ethnology.

Minority women.

Medical Subjects:

Women's Health--ethnology.

Physical Description:

vi, 294 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801892806

0801892805

OCLC:

276334750