Description
Book SynopsisA unique and innovative collection,
Critical Perspectives in Public Health Feminisms gives space to chronically underrepresented voices in public health through engaging with Public Health Feminisms (PHF). PHF describes a technique of analysis that attends gender and intersections of race, class, sexuality, age, and ability in public health.
Including the perspectives of Black, Indigenous, women of colour, refugee, immigrant, (dis)abled, neurodivergent, two-spirit, non-binary, trans and/or gender diverse scholars, this text aims to fill a gap in public health scholarship and practice. Through a social justice approach, it critically addresses how public health services, policies, and programming are unable to protect and promote the health of all Canadians due to their lack of representation and inclusivity from inception to execution.
This accessible and thought-provoking volume is essential for upper-year undergraduate and graduate students across all areas in public health and gender and health studies. It provides analytical, theoretical, and methodological tools to inform work in public health services, policies, and programming through a PHF lens.
Trade ReviewEssential for teaching students and researchers how public health in Canada is embedded within patriarchal and colonial ways of knowing and doing, and for offering ways to integrate a decolonial and feminist praxis for more equitable public health." - Fiona Green, Professor, Department Of Women's And Gender Studies, University Of Winnipeg
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
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Chapter 1: Public Health Feminisms: An Introduction
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Chapter 2: A Really Good Brown Nurse
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Chapter 3: Exploring Gender Equality and Equity in Canadian Global Health Institutions
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Chapter 4: Stuck in a High Wire Act: Ways of Understanding Immigrant Women's Mental Health Beyond Biomedicine
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Chapter 5: Spurring the Witch Hunt: Abortion, Colonialism, Stigma, and Indigenous Knowledges in Canada
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Chapter 6: Deconstructing Ableism in Healthcare
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Chapter 7: Queer Perspectives on Obstetric and Gynecological Violence: Centring Those at the Margins to Capture the Intersectional Effects of the Phenomenon
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Chapter 8: Black Feminism in Critical Public Health Research, Policy, and Programming: Theory and Practice for Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Black Women
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Chapter 9: Taking a Reproductive Justice Lens in Public Health Policy: A Case Study on Family Law for LGBTQ2S+ Parents and Families
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Chapter 10: Strangers in Our Homeland: The Impact of Racism Across Healthcare Policy and Delivery for Indigenous Peoples in Canada
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Chapter 11: The Critical Importance of Addressing the Gender and Racial Inequities in the Public Health System
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Chapter 12: Reclamation of Matriarchy and Kinship Systems
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Chapter 13: Engendering a Feminist Ethic of Care to Training a New Generation of Public Health Researchers: Reflecting on 4theRecord
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Chapter 14: Chronicles of Public Health Doctoral Students: Overcoming the Ivory Tower through a Revolution of "Self-Care" for a Better Future
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Chapter 15: Public Health Feminism and Housing: Status Quo or Transformational?
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Chapter 16: Public Health Feminist Futures and Moving Forward
