Women's health : complexities and differences /
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| Imprint: | Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1997. |
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| Description: | xix, 689 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Women and health series Women & health (Columbus, Ohio) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2737350 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Helen Rodriguez-Trias
- Pt. I. What Is Women's Health? 1. Social, Biomedical, and Feminist Models of Women's Health / Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen. 2. Patterns and Puzzles: The Distribution of Health and Illness among Women in the United States / Deborah L. Wingard
- Pt. II. What We Share and How We Differ. 3. What Are the Dynamics of Differences? / Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen. 4. The Last Sisters: Health Issues of Women with Disabilities / Carol J. Gill
- Pt. III. Creating Women's Health: Health Practices, Working and Living Conditions, and Medical Care. 5. Women, Personal Health Behavior, and Health Promotion / Sheryl Burt Ruzek. 6. The Ergonomics of Women's Work / Julia Faucett. 7. "Less than Animals?": The Health of Women Workers in Garment Manufacture, Agriculture, and Electronics Assembly / Virginia L. Olesen. 8. Access, Cost, and Quality of Medical Care: Where Are We Heading? / Sheryl Burt Ruzek. 9. A Note from Louise: Understanding Women's Health in Appalachia / Judy M. Perry
- Pt. IV. Culture and Complexities. 10. Beauty Myths and Realities and Their Impact on Women's Health / Jane Sprague Zones. 11. Old Woes, Old Ways, New Dawn: Native American Women's Health Issues / Ann Metcalf. 12. Asian/Pacific American Women and Cultural Diversity: Studies of the Traumas of Cancer and War / Karen L. Ito, Rita Chi-Ying Chung and Marjorie Kagawa-Singer. 13. Issues in Latino Women's Health: Myths and Challenges / Susan C. M. Scrimshaw, Ruth E. Zambrana and Christine Dunkel-Schetter
- Pt. V. Intersections of Race, Class, and Culture. 14. African American Women's Health: The Effects of Disease and Chronic Life Stressors / Nikki V. Franke. 15. Women, Power, and Mental Health / Lynn Weber, Tina Hancock and Elizabeth Higginbotham. 16. Who Cares? Women as Informal and Formal Caregivers / Virginia L. Olesen. 17. Older Women: Income, Retirement, and Health / Vida Yvonne Jones and Carroll L. Estes
- Pt. VI. Power and Social Control. 18. Responses to Stigma and Marginality: The Health of Lesbians, Imprisoned Women, and Women with HIV / Nancy E. Stoller. 19. "You Can Be Safer, But ...": Different Women, Many Violences. Introduction / Adele E. Clarke and Lora Bex Lempert. Women's Lived Experiences of Abuse / Lora Bex Lempert. The Battered Women's Movement / Brandy M. Britton. Rape / Brandy M. Britton. A Survivor Speaks about the Victim Input Program / Sally Pickels. Anti-Lesbian Violence / Beatrice von Schulthess. Sexual Harassment / Brandy M. Britton. 20. The Ongoing Politics of Contraception: Norplant and Other Emerging Technologies / Cheri A. Pies
- Pt. VII. Challenges and Choices for the Twenty-first Century. 21. Research to Improve Women's Health: An Agenda for Equity / Deborah Narrigan, Jane Sprague Zones and Nancy Worcester [et al.]. 22. Strengths and Strongholds in Women's Health Research / Virginia L. Olesen, Diana Taylor and Sheryl Burt Ruzek [et al.]. 23. Conversing with Diversity: Implications for Social Research / Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Virginia L. Olesen and Adele E. Clarke.
