Women’s Health in Canada considers the challenges relating to the conceptualization of women’s health. While emphasizing the importance of taking an intersectional approach to women’s healthcare, this book also focuses on the social and structural determinants at play. This revised and updated second edition brings together a collection of new chapters and contributors who collectively shed light on the problems and risks involved in perceiving women’s healthcare using a strictly "gender"- or "sex"-based lens. Contributors foreground an understanding of power as it is mediated through a range of social relations based on gender, race, culture, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, class, and geography and the ways in which privilege and oppression intersect to shape health and system responses to health. This new edition includes updates on what is currently known about women’s health nationally and internationally and situates the chapters in the current Canadian health care and policy context. Scholarship is foregrounded in new developments in gender and intersectional health research and policy. Collectively, this volume explores the important histories and contemporary realities in women’s health experiences.
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This collection considers how health, and "women’s health" are shaped through intersecting systems of power based on colonialism, sexism, racism, heterosexism, and ableism.
Acknowledgements Part One: Conceptual Foundations Introduction to Women’s Health Olena Hankivsky, Marina Morrow, and Colleen Varcoe 1. Women’s Health in the 21st Century Olena Hankivsky 2. Overhauling Life Course Approaches to Women’s Health: Towards an Intersectional Approach Olena Hankivsky and Nicole Etherington Part Two: Historical Foundations 3. Historical and Contemporary Reflections on the Women’s Health Movement in Canada Marina Morrow and Christabelle Sethna 4. Synergies of Oppression: Barriers Faced by Older Immigrant Women in Accessing Services for Elder Abuse Sepali Guruge and Astuko Matsuoka 5. All My Relations – Indigenous Women’s Health in Canada Billie Allan and Janet Smylie 6. Reproductive Politics: Reproductive Choice to Reproductive Justice Holly Mckenzie Part Three: Methodological Foundations: Operationalizing Social Justice and Social Change 7. Decolonizing Research Colleen Varcoe and Holly Mckenzie 8. From Gender Mainstreaming Toward Mainstreaming Intersectionality Olena Hankivsky and Gemma Hunting 9. Engaging Communities: Intersectional Feminist Participatory Action Research Marina Morrow, Colleen Reid, Ania Landy, Sabina Chatterjee, Wendy Frisby, Cindy Holmes, and Audrey Yap Part Four: Exemplifying Change (Health Policy and Practice) 10. Social Determinants of Injection Drug Use Among a Community Sample of Sex Workers: Intersections of Structure and Agency Across the Life Course Cecilia Benoit, Mikael Jansson, Rachel Phillips, Helga Hallgrímsdóttir, and Kate Vallance 11. Toward a Broader Conceputalization of Trans Women’s Sexual Health Greta Bauer and Rebecca Hammond 12. “Women and Madness” Revisited: The Promise of Intersectional and Mad Studies Frameworks Marina Morrow 13. The Intersecting Social and Structural Contexts of Navigating HIV Risk and Access to Care among Women Andrea Krüsi and Kate Shannon 14. Social Transformation and Urban Regeneration: Wellbeing and Women’s Marginalisation in Community Contexts Judith Sixsmith, Ryan Woolrych, and Mei Lan Fang 15. Violence Against Women: Intersections of Health and Justice Kate Rossiter 16. Evolving Disability Scholarship and Activism in Canadian Contexts: Making Room for Intersectionality Christine Kelly 17. Understanding Migrant Women’s Health: Looking Through Intersectional, Gendered and Human Rights Lens Bilkis Vissandjée and Ilene Hyman 18. An Intersectional Analysis of the Ontario Dementia Strategy Ngozi Iroanyah 19. Prioritizing Non-Communicable Diseases at the Intersections: Global Action in the Canadian Context Olena Hankivsky, Claire Sommerville, and Mary Mandhar 20. Beyond Sex and Gender Difference in Funding and Reporting of Health Research Olena Hankivsky, Kristen W. Springer, and Gemma Hunting Contributors
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"This book offers cutting-edge analyses of women’s health. Its critical social science framing will make it a go-to book for innovations in teaching and for research about persistent historical contexts that continue to block justice for women. The editors are intersectionality scholars and the book chapters reflect the broad reach of the contributors’ academic, activism, and policy knowledge across central, and at times silenced, issues in women’s health. The chapters present a clearly cohesive set of interconnected ideas, which is often difficult to achieve in an edited volume."
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ISBN
9781442650497
Publisert
2022-03-17
Utgave
2. utgave
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University of Toronto Press
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1210 gr
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260 mm
Bredde
262 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Marina Morrow is a professor and chair of the School of Health Policy and Management at York University. Olena Hankivksy is a professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University. Colleen Varcoe is a professor and associate director in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia.