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• Title:Women's health in Canada : critical perspectives on theory and policy / edited by Marina Morrow, Olena Hankivsky, and Colleen Varcoe.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Hankivsky, Olena.
  Varcoe, Colleen, 1952-
  Morrow, Marina Helen, 1963-
  
• Published/Created:Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA309 .W6668 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA309 .W6668 2007
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Women--Health and hygiene--Canada.
  Women's health services--Canada.
  Medical policy--Canada.
  Women--Health and hygiene--Sociological aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Women's Health.
  Women's Health Services.
  Health Policy.
  
• Subject(s):Börngen, ...
  
• Description:ix, 557 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Connections between the social, economic, and cultural contexts of women's lives and their physical, spiritual, and mental well-being are a primary focus [of the book]."
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780802039392 (alk. paper)
  0802039391 (alk. paper)
  9780802096388 (pbk.)
  0802096387 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Acknowledgments
  Introduction : Beyond gender matters / Colleen Varcoe, Olena Hankivsky, and Marina Morrow
  pt. 1. Locating ourselves
  1. ʹOur bodies, our selvesʹ in context : reflections on the women's health movement in Canada / Marina Morrow
  2. More than age and biology : overhauling lifespan approaches to women's health / Olena Hankivsky
  pt. 2. Theory and methods
  3. Feminist methodology and health research : bridging trends and debates / Marina Morrow and Olena Hankivsky
  4. Postcolonial feminist theoretical perspectives and women's health / Annette Browne, Victoria L. Smye, and Colleen Varcoe
  5. Gender-based analysis and health policy : the need to rethink outdated strategies / Olena Hankivsky
  6. Engendering evidence : transforming economic evaluations / Olena Hankivsky and Jane Friesen
  pt. 3. The social determinants of health
  7. Women's health and the politics of poverty and exclusion / Colleen Reid
  8. Women's health at the intersection of gender and the experience of international migration / Bilkis Vissandjée, Wilfreda Thurston, Alisha Apale, and Kamrun Nahar
  9. Cultures of dis/ability : from being stigmatized to doing disability / Lisa Diedrich
  10. Negotiating sexualities in women's health care / Cynthia Mathieson
  11. Mothering and women's health / Colleen Varcoe and Gweneth Hartrick Doane. pt. 4. Key issues in women's health
  12. Women, drug regulation, and maternal/state conflicts / Susan C. Boyd
  13. Women's voices matter : creating women-centred mental health policy / Marina Morrow
  14. Between visibility and vulnerability : women and HIV/AIDS / Meredith Raimondo
  15. Breast cancer : lived experience and feminist action / Sue Wilkinson
  16. Selling ʹthe changeʹ : a comparison of the dangers of hormone replacement therapies in profit versus National Health Care delivery systems / Brian Richter and Cindy Patton
  17. Women's health and cardiovascular care : a persistent divide / Lynn E. Young
  18. From global to local and over the rainbow : violence against women / Olena Hankivsky and Colleen Varcoe
  19. Women's access to maternity services in Canada : historical developments and contemporary challenges / Cecilia Benoit, Dena Carroll, and Rachel Westfall
  20. Relocating care : home care in Ontario / Pat Armstrong
  Contributors.