Women and well-being / edited by Vanaja Dhruvarajan = Les Femmes et le mieux-etre / sous la direction de Vanaja Dhruvarajan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dhruvarajan, Vanaja, Author.

Contributor:

Dhruvarajan, Vanaja.

Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Canada--Social conditions--Congresses.

Women.

Women--Health and hygiene--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Femmes et le mieux-etre

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : Published for the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women by McGill-Queen's University Press, c1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Monique Bégin begins the first section, which deals with women's physical and mental health, with a critical evaluation of the Canadian health-care system. In the section on women's well-being in the workplace, Caroline Andrew, Cécile Coderre, and Ann Denis examine the situation of a group of women managers, and Nancy Guberman explores the role of women in caring for dependent adults in the home and community. The third section investigates the issue of well-being for minority women: Kabahenda Nyakabwa and Carol D.H. Harvey analyse the case of Black immigrant women and Mary O'Brien reviews the stereotypes of older, unmarried women. In the final section, the authors -- among them Marguerite Andersen, Maureen Leyland, and Maureen Jessop Orton -- concern themselves with ensuring the well-being of women by increasing their power in society through knowledge. Other contributors to this volume are: Leslie Bella, Cathryn Boak, Dawn Currie, Megan Barker Davies, Claire V. de la Durantaye, Gloria R. Geller, Madeline Jean Graveline, Elayne M. Harris, Andrea Lebowitz, Doris McIlroy, Joanne Prindiville, Monique Raimbault, Ghyslaine Savaria, and Eva A. Szekely. This collection includes essays in both English and French.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Women, Health, and Well-Being Les femmes, la santé, et le mieux-être

Redesigning Health Care for Women

Illness as Metaphor in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Women’s Liberation and Women’s Mental Health: Towards a Political Economy of Eating Disorders

Towards an Understanding of the Social Logic Underlying Women’s Sporting Practices

The Women beyond the Gates: Female Mental Health Patients in British Columbia, 1910–1935

Women, Work, and Well-Being Les femmes, le travail, et le mieux-être

The Family, Women, and Caregiving: Who Cares for the Caregivers?

An Exploration of the Work Women Do to Produce and Reproduce Family Leisure

Le mieux-être et le travail: contradiction on compatibilité

Femmes collaboratrices et pélnitude

Maintaining Separate Spheres: Women’s Efforts to Enter Non-traditional Jobs–A Pilot Study of Women Working in Corrections in Saskatchewan

Women, Minority Status, and Weil-Being Les femmes, lew situation minoritaire, et lew mieux-être

Immigrant Women and the Problem of Difference

Adaptation to Canada: The Case of Black Immigrant Women

Women with Disabilities: A Research Survey Report

Never-Married Older Women: Beyond the Stereotypes

Threats to Rural Women’s Well-Being: A Group Response

Women, Knowledge, and Weil-Being Les femmes, la connaissance, et le mieux-être

La plénitude, du mythe à la divagation

Well-Being for Rural Women: Empowerment through Nonformal Learning

Educating for Empowerment: Women’s Studies as a Distance Education Course

Challenging the Barriers to Social Change

L’amour et le bien-être

Contributors

Notes:

English and French.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-7735-6231-1

OCLC:

1394872747