Women's health : complexities and differences / edited by Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Virginia L. Olesen, Adele E. Clarke.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Women & health (Columbus, Ohio)
Other Authors: Ruzek, Sheryl Burt
Olesen, Virginia L.
Clarke, Adele E.
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [1997], ©1997.
Series:Women & health (Columbus, Ohio)
Subjects:
Women > Health and hygiene.
Women's health services.
Women's Health.
Women's Health Services.
Physical Description:xix, 689 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • I. What is women's health? Social, biomedical, and feminist models of women's health / Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Adele E. Clarke, and Virginia L. Olesen
  • Pattern and puzzles : the distribution of health and illness among women in the United States / Deborah L. Wingard. II. What we share and how we differ. What are the dynamics of differences? / Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Adele E. Clarke, and Virginia L. Olesen
  • The last sisters : health issues of women with disabilities / Carol J. Gill. III. Creating women's health : health practices, working and living conditions, and medical care. Women, personal health behavior, and health promotion / Sheryl Burt Ruzek
  • The ergonomics of women's work / Julia Faucett
  • "Less than animals?" : the health of women workers in garment manufacture, agriculture, and electronics assembly / Virginia L. Olesen
  • Access, cost, and quality of medical care : where are we heading? / Sheryl Burt Ruzek
  • A note from Louise : understanding women's health in Appalachia / Judy M. Perry. IV. Culture and complexities. Beauty myths and realities and their impact on women's health / Jane Sprague Zones
  • Old woes, old ways, new dawn : Native American women's health issues / Ann Metcalf
  • Asian/Pacific American women and cultural diversity : studies of the traumas of cancer and war / Karen J. Ito, Rita Chi-Ying Chung, and Marjorie Kagawa-Singer
  • Issues in Latino women's health : myths and challenges / Susan C.M. Scrimshaw, Ruth E. Zambrana, and Christine Dunkel-Schetter.
  • V. Intersections of race, class, and culture. African American women's health : the effects of disease and chronic life stressors / Nikki V. Franke
  • Women, power, and mental health / Lynn Weber, Tina Hancock, and Elizabeth Higginbotham
  • Who cares? : women as informal and formal caregivers / Virginia L. Olesen
  • Older women : income, retirement, and health / Vida Yvonne Jones and Carroll L. Estes. VI. Power and social control. Responses to stigma and marginality : the health of lesbians, imprisoned women, and women with HIV / Nancy E. Stoller
  • "You can be safer, but--" : different women, many violences. Women's lived experiences of abuse / Lora Bex Lempert
  • The battered women's movement ; 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. The ongoing politics of contraception : Norplant and other emerging technologies / Cheri A. Pies. VII. Challenges and choices for the twenty-first century. Research to improve women's health : an agenda for equity / Deborah Narrigan ... [et al.]
  • Strengths and strongholds in women's health research / Virginia L. Olesen ... [et al.]
  • Conversing with diversity : implications for social research / Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Virginia L. Olesen, and Adele E. Clarke.