{"product_id":"our-chemical-selves-9780774828345","title":"Our Chemical Selves","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection provides a critical, interdisciplinary analysis of how everyday exposures to common chemicals are adversely affecting the health of Canadians and reveals the connections between social inequity, environmental risks, and the gendered division of health burdens in Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book... provides a wide variety of scholarship on chemical threats from a feminist political economy perspective. It is particularly effective at arguing for both extended producer responsibility for potentially harmful substances and the precautionary principle as a policy adoption strategy when dealing with uncertainties in the science of chemical pollution. -- Angela Cope * Health Tomorrow *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Chemical Selves \u003c\/em\u003eis a fascinating book that raises important questions about the impact of chemicals on women’s health in Canada … This book should be read by environmental historians or anyone concerned with the impact of chemicals in our world. Not only do the contributors highlight important issues regarding women’s health, but they offer useful solutions to change our collective indifference toward the intensification of chemicals in our world. -- David Kinkela, State University of New York at Fredonia * Environmental History 22 *\u003cbr\u003eThe strength of this work lies in its success at bringing recent developments in science together with legal and policy analysis and recommendations. For anyone interested in women’s environmental health issues, it is a must-read … This book will help to provide researchers, policy-makers and advocates with tools to understand and address links between social inequity, environmental health and gendered differences in chemical exposure and effects -- Kaitlyn Mitchell * Herizons *\u003cbr\u003e[U]nique and valuable for its focus on gender and environmental justice. -- M. Gochfeld * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: Water Is Life \/ \u003cem\u003eJosephine Mandamin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Production of Pollution and Consumption of Chemicals in Canada \/ \u003cem\u003eDayna Nadine Scott, Lauren Rakowski, Laila Zahra Harris, and Troy Dixon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: “Consuming” Chemicals\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Wonderings on Pollution and Women’s Health \/ \u003cem\u003eM. Ann Phillips\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Protecting Ourselves from Chemicals: A Study of Gender and Precautionary Consumption \/ \u003cem\u003eNorah MacKendrick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Sex and Gender in Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan \/ \u003cem\u003eDayna Nadine Scott and Sarah Lewis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Routes of Women’s Exposures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Trace Chemicals on Tap: The Potential for Gendered Health Effects of Chronic Exposures via Drinking Water \/ \u003cem\u003eJyoti Phartiyal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Consuming “DNA as Chemicals” and Chemicals as Food \/ \u003cem\u003eBita Amani\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Consuming Carcinogens: Women and Alcohol \/ \u003cem\u003eNancy Ross, Jean Morrison, Samantha Cukier, and Tasha Smith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Hormones as the “Messengers of Gender”?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 The Impact of Phthalates on Women’s Reproductive Health \/ \u003cem\u003eMaria P. Velez, Patricia Monnier, Warren G. Foster, and William D. Fraser\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Plastics Recycling and Women’s Reproductive Health \/ \u003cem\u003eAimée L. Ward and Annie Sasco\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Xenoestrogens and Breast Cancer: Chemical Risk, Exposure, and Corporate Power \/ \u003cem\u003eSarah Young and Dugald Seely\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: Consumption in the Production Process\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Plastics Industry Workers and Breast Cancer Risk: Are We Heeding the Warnings? \/ \u003cem\u003eMargaret M. Keith, James T. Brophy, Robert DeMatteo, Michael Gilbertson, Andrew E. Watterson, and Matthias Beck\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Power and Control at the Production-Consumption Nexus: Migrant Women Farmworkers and Pesticides \/ \u003cem\u003eAdrian A. Smith and Alexandra Stiver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Thinking about Thresholds, Literal and Figurative \/ \u003cem\u003eDayna Nadine Scott\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlossary; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404931178839,"sku":"9780774828345","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-chemical-selves-9780774828345","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}