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Book SynopsisThis collection considers how health, and women's health are shaped through intersecting systems of power based on colonialism, sexism, racism, heterosexism, and ableism.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
