Contemporary Women s Health Issues for Today and the Future

• Author : Cheryl Kolander,Danny Ballard,Cynthia Chandler
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
• Release : 19 February 2013

Contemporary Women’s Health emphasizes health promotion and the impact of multicultural and diversity issues on women’s health. The text is written from a woman-centered perspective and offers thorough discussions on a broad range of female-centric topics including feminism and the women's health movement, global issues in women's health, and health concerns specific to diverse populations. It is appropriate for both nontraditional and traditional students in a variety of course settings including health education, general education, medical education, and

• Author : Dr Prabha S. Chandra,Dr Helen Herrman,Dr Jane E. Fisher,Dr Marianne Kastrup,Dr Unaiza Niaz,Dr Marta Rondon,Dr Ahmed Okasha
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 24 September 2009

Contemporary Topics in Women’s Mental Health: Global Perspectives in a Changing Society considers both the mental health and psychiatric disorders of women in relation to global social change. The book addresses the current themes in psychiatric disorders among women: reproduction and mental health, service delivery and ethics, impact of violence, disasters and migration, women’s mental health promotion and social policy, and concludes each section with a commentary discussing important themes emerging from each chapter. Psychiatrists, sociologists and students

• Author : Katalin Fábián
• Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Release : 14 October 2009

As the first and only book in any language on contemporary women’s movements in Hungary, this groundbreaking study focuses on the role of women’s activism in a society where women are not yet adequately represented by established parties and political institutions. Drawing on eyewitness accounts of meetings and protests, as well as first-person interviews with leading female activists, Katalin Fábián examines the interactions between women’s groups in Hungary and studies the unique brand of democracy

• Author : Elizabeth Fee,Nancy Krieger
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 25 November 2020

This collection of essays addresses the broadening array of issues on the agenda of the women's health movements of the 1980s and 1990s, just as a previous collection, "Women and Health: The Politics of Sex in Medicine", gathered contributions from the earlier wave of the women's health movement in the 1970s. The papers in both volumes are selected from the "International Journal of Health Services", edited by Vicente Navarro. The essays in this volume were originally published in the 1980s

• Author : Zeynep Zeren Atayurt
• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• Release : 01 August 2011

The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this process of 'othering', or viewing as different, has created a repressive discourse, where 'excess' has increasingly come to be studied as a 'physical abnormality' or a signifier of a 'personality defect' in contemporary Western society. This book engages with the multifarious re-imaginings of the 'excessive' embodiment in contemporary women's writing, drawing specifically on the construction of this form of embodiment in the works

• Author : Jane Healy
• Publisher : Policy Press
• Release : 27 July 2022

This is the first collection dedicated to the use of intersectionality as theory, framework and methodology in criminological research. It draws together contemporary British research to demonstrate the value of intersectionality theory in both familiar and innovative applications, including race, gender, class, disability, sexual orientation and age. Experts explore a range of experiences relating to harm, hate crimes and offending, and demonstrate the impacts of oppression on complex personal identities that do not fit neatly in homogenised communites. Challenging conventional

• Author : Carla Herrera
• Publisher : Carla Herrera
• Release : 01 March 2005

The Contemporary Womans Guide to Midlife is an autobiographical tour through midlife. The author takes the reader through her transformation in early midlife and allows a brief, but intimate, glimpse of one womans perspective on the process. Essay topics include the empty nest, menopause, values and relationships. A must read for anyone approaching or knowing someone who is approaching midlife or major life transitions.

• Author : Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN,Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release : 16 May 2001

This book demonstrates that nurses have made an important contribution to the advancement and expansion of women's health knowledge. Selecting the health issues of most importance to women, the editors have assembled leading nurse researchers to review, summarize, and critique nursing research within each area. A general overview of the field is also provided. Contributors include Angela McBride, Linda Andrist, Janice Humphreys, and Jacquelyn Campbell. Also contributing are Kathleen MacPherson and Nancy King Reame, nurse members of the original Boston

• Author : Olena Hankivsky,Colleen Varcoe,Marina Helen Morrow
• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• Release : 01 January 2007

This volume fills a gap in Canadian healthcare scholarship by providing a resource for teaching and understanding women's health in this country.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
• Release : 09 January 2012

Issues in Women's Health and Women's Studies Research: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Women's Health and Women's Studies Research. The editors have built Issues in Women's Health and Women's Studies Research: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Women's Health and Women's Studies Research in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and

• Author : Janine A. Mileaf
• Publisher : Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
• Release : 02 February 2023

"Inside out loud" traces the emergence of representations of women's health in American art beginning around 1980, across the 1990s, and into the present in works by both male and female artists"--Page 23.

• Author : Karen O'Connor
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 18 August 2010

These volumes provide an authoritative reference resource on leadership issues specific to women and gender, with a focus on positive aspects and opportunities for leadership in various domains.

• Author : Sheryl Burt Ruzek,Virginia L. Olesen,Adele E. Clarke
• Publisher : Women & Health C&s Perspective
• Release : 02 February 1997

How well do national agendas address all women's health care priorities? What are the implications for social action? Particular attention is paid in this collection of essays to how race, class, gender, and culture shape and in turn are shaped by treatment options and health care for certain subpopulations among Native American, Latina, Asian American, and African American women. Discussions of reproductive health, mental health, violence, and the treatment of stigmatized women raise perplexing issues about choice, chance, and social

• Author : Elianne Riska
• Publisher : Transaction Publishers
• Release : 02 February 2023

The increasing proportion of women in the medical profession has been followed keenly both by conservative and feminist observers during the past three decades. Statistics both in Europe and in the United States tend to confirm that women work mainly in niches of the health care system or medical specialties characterized by relatively low earnings or prestige. The segregation of medical work has become increasingly recognized as a sign of inequality between female and male members of the medical profession.

• Author : Lori d'Agincourt-Canning,Carolyn Ells
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 02 February 2023

Numerous issues confront women's healthcare today, among them the medicalization of women's bodies, cosmetic genital surgery, violence against women, HIV, perinatal mental health disorders. This volume uniquely explores such difficult topics and others at the intersection of clinical practice, policy, and bioethics in women's health care through a feminist ethics lens. With in-depth discussions of issues in women's reproductive health, it also broadens scholarship by responding to a wider array of ethical challenges that many women experience in accessing health