Women's Health in Canada : Challenges of Intersectionality, Second Edition

Marina Morrow

ISBN 10: 1442628472 / ISBN 13: 9781442628472

Published by University Of Toronto Press Mär 2022, 2022

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Neuware - This collection considers how health, and 'women s health' are shaped through intersecting systems of power based on colonialism, sexism, racism, heterosexism, and ableism.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women's Health in Canada : Challenges of Intersectionality, Second Edition
• Publisher: University Of Toronto Press Mär 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442628472
• ISBN 13: 9781442628472
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 251W x 203H x 25D millimeters 251 millimeters width by 203 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 939 grams

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Synopsis

Women’s Health in Canada considers the challenges relating to the conceptualization of women’s health. While emphasizing the importance of taking an intersectional approach to women’s healthcare, this book also focuses on the social and structural determinants at play. This revised and updated second edition brings together a collection of new chapters and contributors who collectively shed light on the problems and risks involved in perceiving women’s healthcare using a strictly "gender"- or "sex"-based lens.

Contributors foreground an understanding of power as it is mediated through a range of social relations based on gender, race, culture, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, class, and geography and the ways in which privilege and oppression intersect to shape health and system responses to health. This new edition includes updates on what is currently known about women’s health nationally and internationally and situates the chapters in the current Canadian health care and policy context. Scholarship is foregrounded in new developments in gender and intersectional health research and policy. Collectively, this volume explores the important histories and contemporary realities in women’s health experiences.

About the Author

Marina Morrow is a professor and chair of the School of Health Policy and Management at York University.
Olena Hankivksy is a professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.
Colleen Varcoe is a professor emeritus in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia.