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Women's Health: Readings On Social Economic And Political Issues

by: Worcester, Nancy

Women's Health: Readings On Social Economic And Political Issues

by: Worcester, Nancy

ISBN 13:
9780757508097
ISBN 10:
075750809X
Edition: 4th
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Copyright: 07/12/2004
Publisher: Kendall-Hunt
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New! 4th Edition of Women's Health: Readings on Social, Economic, andPolitical IssuesNancy Worcester & Mariamne H. WhatleyFourth Edition2004/580 pages/paperThe readings are a representation of the exciting range of excellentresources now available on women's health issues. Over 140 articles on important topics, including:- Women and the Health Care System- Inequalities and Health- Images and Gender Roles- Women and Mental HealthNew articles, including:- A Century of Women's Health (1900-2000), by Office on Women's Health- Evaluating Online Health Information, by Kiki Zeldes- Ruling the Exceptions: Same Sex Battering and Domestic ViolenceTheory, by Gregory S. Merrill- Endometriosis: New Developments, by Andrea DuBrow

Acknowledgments

Book Introduction

xiii

Women and the Health Care System

(76)

Sexism in Women's Medical Care

(4)

Mary A. Halas

PRO: Women's Health: Developing a New Interdisciplinary Specialty

(4)

Karen Johnson

CON: Women's Health as a Specialty: A Deceptive Solution

(6)

Michelle Harrison

Thinking About Women's Health: The Case for Gender Sensitivity

(2)

Amal J. Khoury

Carol S. Weisman

Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex Matter?

(4)

How to Tell Your Doctor a Thing or Two

(4)

Morton Hunt

The Gynecologic Exam and the Training of Medical Students: An Opportunity for Health Education

(3)

Judith Schmidt

Cadavers, Dolls, and Prostitutes: Medical Pedagogy and the Pelvic Rehearsal

(10)

Terri Kapsalis

Women's Health Events of the 20th Century

(5)

The Women's Health Movement in the United States: From Grass-Roots Activism to Professional Agendas

(6)

Sheryl Burt Ruzek

Julie Becker

Crossing Cultural Borders with ``Our Bodies, Ourselves''

(4)

Sally Whelan

Jane Pincus

Tales Out of Medical School

(4)

Adriane Fugh-Berman

Women in Medicine

(2)

Rebecca D. C. Perry

What Impact Have Women Physicians Had on Women's Health?

(3)

Judith Lorber

Confronting the Myths: Can America Halt the Slide Toward Health Care Meltdown?

(4)

Bob LeBow

Scientific Terms Explained

(3)

Adriane Fugh-Berman

Evaluating Online Health Information

(5)

Kiki Zeldes

Worksheet

(2)

Inequalities and Health

(58)

Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference

(4)

Audre Lorde

There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression

(1)

Audre Lorde

Unlearning Racism

(1)

Ricky Sherover-Marcuse

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

(3)

Peggy Mclntosh

Does Racism Harm Health? Did Child Abuse Exist Before 1962? On Explicit Questions, Critical Science, and Current Controversies: An Ecosocial Perspective

(4)

Nancy Krieger

Health Disparities in the United States

(3)

Cultural Humility versus Cultural Competence: A Critical Distinction in Defining Physician Training Outcomes in Multicultural Education

(4)

Melanie Tervalon

Jann Murray-Garcia

Minority Women and Advocacy for Women's Health

(6)

Shiriki K. Kumanyika

Christiaan B. Morssink

Marion Nestle

Health at the Margins

105

(3)

Gabrie'l J. Atchison

Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care

108

(5)

Vanessa Northington Gamble

Health and Indigenous People: Recommendations for the Next Generation

113

(2)

Michael E. Bird

La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina Health

115

(6)

Denise A. Segura

Adela de la Torre

Expanding Health Options for Asian and Pacific Islander Women

121

(1)

Ramani Sripada-Vaz

Sue Lowcock

Blazes of Truth

122

(2)

Susan Schnur

JAP: The New Antisemitic Code Word

124

(1)

Francine Klagsbrun

Strained Class Windows

125

(3)

Judith K. Witherow

Disability and the Medical System

128

(2)

Simply. . . Friend or Foe?

130

(5)

Worksheet

133

(2)

Gender Roles, Sex, and Marketing

135

(58)

Hazards of Hearth and Home

137

(12)

Lesley Doyal

Perspectives on Women's Occupational Health

149

(4)

Jeanne Mager Stellman

Male and Female Hormones Revisited

153

(2)

Mariamne H. Whatley

Intersexuals: Exploding the Binary Sex System

155

(3)

Kim Klausner

``Cultural Practice'' or ``Reconstructive Surgery''? U.S. Genital Cutting, the Intersex Movement, and Medical Double Standards

158

(11)

Cheryl Chase

The Picture of Health: How Textbook Photographs Construct Health

169

(9)

Mariamne H. Whatley

Treating Disease with a Famous Face

178

(2)

Alex Kuczynski

Manufacturing Need, Manufacturing ``Knowledge''

180

(2)

AMSA's PharmFree Campaign

182

(2)

Those Omnipresent Prescription Drug Ads: What to Look Out For

184

(1)

How to Read a Drug Ad

185

(8)

Worksheet

189

(4)

Menstruation

193

(32)

If Men Could Menstruate---A Political Fantasy

195

(1)

Gloria Steinem

Menarche and the (Hetero) Sexualization of the Female Body

196

(10)

Janet Lee

Female Adolescence: Puberty and Growing Up

206

(6)

Rose E. Frisch

Don't Just Go with the Flow

212

(5)

Teen Voices

The Selling of Premenstrual Syndrome: Who Profits from Making PMS ``The Disease of the 80s''?

217

(8)

Andrea Eagan

Worksheet

221

(4)

Women and Mental Health

225

(30)

Women and Mental Health

227

(6)

Marian Murphy

Mad Women or Mad Society: Towards a Feminist Practice with Women Survivors of Child Sexual Assault

233

(6)

Fiona Rummery

Co-dependency: A Feminist Critique

239

(4)

Bette S. Tallen

Prozac Use Up at UW

243

(2)

Amy Zarlenga

Born-Again Prozac: Not Worth the Cost

245

(1)

You, Too, Can Hold a Congressional Briefing: The SMCR Goes to Washington About ``Prementrual Dysphoric Disorder'' and Sarafem

246

(3)

Paula J. Caplan

Tell Us About Your Activism. . . : No Longer in Whispers

249

(6)

Karen Milstein

Worksheet

251

(4)

Intimate Partner Violence and Health

255

(46)

Continuum of Family Violence

258

(1)

Power and Control Wheel

259

(1)

Equality Wheel

260

(1)

A More Hidden Crime: Adolescent Battered Women

261

(3)

Nancy Worcester

The Unique Role Health Workers Can Play in Recognizing and Responding to Battered Women

264

(4)

Nancy Worcester

Medical Power and Control Wheel and Medical Advocacy Wheel

268

(1)

Battered Women of Color in Public Health Care Systems: Racism, Sexism, and Violence

269

(6)

Beth E. Richie

Valli Kanuha

Anishinabe Values / Social Laws Regarding Wife Battering

275

(1)

Ruling the Exceptions: Same-Sex Battering and Domestic Violence Theory

276

(5)

Gregory S. Merrill

Trans and Intersex Survivors of Domestic Violence: Defining Terms, Barriers, and Responsibilities

281

(5)

Diana Courvant

Loree Cook-Daniels

Women's Use of Force: Complexities and Challenges of Taking the Issue Seriously

286

(15)

Nancy Worcester

Worksheet

297

(4)

Alcohol and Tobacco Issues

301

(24)

What Is a Theory of Women's Smoking? and How Do Societies Benefit?

303

(2)

Lorraine Greaves

Women and Tobacco

305

(3)

Robert Weissman

Alcoholics Invisible: The Ordeal of the Female Alcoholic

308

(6)

Marian Sandmaier

Are College Students Alcoholics?

314

(3)

Aaron M. Brower

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Nation in Distress

317

(3)

Charon Asetoyer

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Class Related

320

(1)

Ruth Hubbard

The Twelve-Step Controversy

321

(4)

Charlotte Davis Kasl

Worksheet

323

(2)

Food, Body Shaping, and Body Projects

325

(60)

Nourishing Ourselves

326

(10)

Nancy Worcester

Fatphobia

336

(2)

Nancy Worcester

Mental Health Issues Related to Dieting

338

(3)

Nancy Worcester

We'll Always Be Fat But Fat Can Be Fit

341

(4)

Carol Sternhell

Weight and Health: Analyzing the Surgeon General's ``Call to Action''

345

(2)

Lynn McAfee

Pat Lyons

I'm Not Fat, I'm Latina

347

(1)

Christy Haubegger

Making ``a Way Outa No Way''

348

(13)

Becky W. Thompson

Regarding the FDA's Approval of Saline Breast Implants

361

(1)

Diana Zuckerman

Pretty in Ink: Conformity, Resistance, and Negotiation in Women's Tattooing

362

(14)

Michael Atkinson

Ouch!: You Call That Body Art?

376

(9)

Teen Voices

Worksheet

381

(4)

Sexuality and LBT Issues

385

(48)

Exposed at Last: The Truth About Your Clitoris

387

(2)

Jennifer Johnson

How Being a Good Girl Can Be Bad for Girls

389

(10)

Deborah L. Tolman

Tracy E. Higgins

The Orgasm Gap

399

(13)

Marcia Douglass

Lisa Douglass

Women's Liberation Is Coming

412

(2)

Jennifer O'Connor

A New Politics of Sexuality

414

(2)

June Jordan

Do Ask, Do Tell

416

(4)

Jennifer E. Potter

Health Care without Shame: Some Background for the Practitioner

420

(3)

Charles Moser

Trans Health Crisis: For Us It's Life or Death

423

(3)

Leslie Feinberg

Forbidden Fruit

426

(2)

Anne Finger

The Need for Intimacy

428

(5)

Jane Porcino

Worksheet

431

(2)

Fertility, Infertility, and Reproductive Rights / Freedom

433

(44)

For Native Women Reproductive Rights Mean . . .

436

(1)

Latinas for Reproductive Choice

437

(1)

Reproductive Issues Are Essential Survival Issues for Asian-American Communities

438

(2)

Connie S. Chan

Will the ``Real'' Mother Please Stand Up? The Logic of Eugenics and American National Family Planning

440

(9)

Patricia Hill Collins

Contraceptive Jelly on Toast and Other Unintended Consequences of Sexuality Education

449

(3)

Mariamne H. Whatley

Elissa R. Henken

`The Pill' May Not Mix Well with Other Drugs

452

(2)

Judith Willis

Eight New Nonhormonal Contraceptive Methods for Men

454

(2)

Elaine Lissner

Abortion Fact Sheet: Young Women and Abortion, The Shortage of Abortion Providers, and Who Has Abortions?

456

(2)

The Bad Baby Blues: Reproductive Technology and the Threat to Diversity

458

(3)

Lisa Blumberg

Discovering That You Are Infertile: One Woman's Experience

461

(5)

Naomi Pfeffer

Anne Woollett

Update to ``Discovering That You Are Infertile: One Woman's Experience''

466

(2)

Anne Woollett

Naomi Pfeffer

Grade A: The Market for a Yale Woman's Eggs

468

(3)

Jessica Cohen

Father Knows Baste

471

(6)

Tamar Abrams

Worksheet

475

(2)

Childbirth and Lactation

477

(44)

The Cultural Warping of Childbirth

479

(6)

Doris Haire

Routine Midwifery Care: Why Not Here?

485

(3)

Leah Hyder

Cesarean Section in the United States

488

(1)

Midwifery Facts

489

(1)

How Do Socioeconomic Factors Affect Disparities in Maternal Mortality?

490

(3)

Deborah Maine

Understanding Distress in the Aftermath of Miscarriage

493

(2)

Pamela A. Geller

What Is Postpartum Depression?

495

(3)

Leslie W. Tarn

Formula for Profit: How Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes Undermines the Health of Babies

498

(5)

Jennifer Coburn

From TV to Real Life: Lack of Education Causes Tragic Results

503

(2)

Jennifer Coburn

Nutrition, Breastfeeding, and Ethnicity: Understanding Maternal and Child Health Beliefs among New-Wave Immigrants

505

(6)

Caroline Westbrook Arnold

Blood and Milk: Constructions of Female Bodily Fluids in Western Society

511

(10)

Ros Bramwell

Worksheet

517

(4)

Aging, Ageism, Mid-life and Older Women's Health Issues

521

(44)

Ageing

523

(2)

Patsy J. Murphy

Women and Ageing: The Dreaded Old Woman Fights Back

525

(5)

Madge Sceriha

An Open Letter to the Women's Movement

530

(1)

Barbara Macdonald

More Selling of HRT: Still Playing on the Fear Factor

531

(19)

Nancy Worcester

Mariamne Whatley

Now the Truth Is Known

550

(1)

Amy Allina

Cindy Pearson

HRT: Overview

551

(2)

Hormone Therapy: Six Steps Toward a Better Future

553

(1)

Cindy Pearson

Phytoestrogens: A New Alternative for Women?

554

(3)

Adriane Fugh-Berman

Hormones for Men: Is Male Menopause a Question of Medicine or of Marketing?

557

(8)

Jerome Groopman

Worksheet

563

(2)

The Politics of Disease

565

(50)

Breast Cancer: Power vs. Prosthesis

567

(4)

Audre Lorde

Breast Cancer: The Environmental Connection

571

(6)

Rita Arditti

Tatiana Schreiber

National Women's Health Network Fact Sheet: Breast Cancer and Women of Color

577

(3)

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Read This Before You Have a Mammogram

580

(1)

Surgeon Who Headed a U.K. Mammography Program Becomes One of Its Strongest Critics

581

(2)

Tamoxifen: Breast Cancer Prevention That's Hard to Swallow

583

(2)

Rita Arditti

Pinstripes to Pullovers: Learning to Live with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

585

(2)

Donna Kiefer

A Survey of Attitudes and Experiences of Women with Heart Disease

587

(9)

Elisa Marcuccio

Nancy Loving

Susan K. Bennett

Sharonne N. Hayes

Endometriosis: New Developments

596

(2)

Andrea DuBrow

Vagina Dialogue: One Woman's Battle with a Mysterious Illness

598

(1)

Tenaya Darlington

What to Ask Your Gynecologist

599

(3)

Molly M. Ginty

Waging War on STDs---and Drugmaker Apathy---with Microbicides

602

(3)

Elizabeth Suiter

With or without the Dam Thing: The Lesbian Safer Sex Debate

605

(4)

Carol Camlin

A Gendered Epidemic: Women and the Risks and Burdens of HIV

609

(6)

Peter Piot

Worksheet

613

(2)

Resource Information

615

(4)

Index

619

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