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Tables of Contents for Women's Health
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
4
HELEN RODRIGUEZ-TRIAS
Preface
xv
PART I What Is Women's Health?
1
46
1. Social, Biomedical, and Feminist Models of Women's Health
11
18
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
ADELE E. CLARKE
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
2. Patterns and Puzzles: The Distribution of Health and Illness among Women in the United States
29
18
DEBORAH L. WINGARD
PART II What We Share and How We Differ
47
66
3. What Are the Dynamics of Differences?
51
45
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
ADELE E. CLARKE
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
4. The Last Sisters: Health Issues of Women with Disabilities
96
17
CAROL J. GILL
PART III Creating Women's Health: Health Practices, Working and Living Conditions, and Medical Care
113
132
5. Women, Personal Health Behavior, and Health Promotion
118
36
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
6. The Ergonomics of Women's Work
154
19
JULIA FAUCETT
7. "Less than Animals?": The Health of Women Workers in Garment Manufacture, Agriculture, and Electronics Assembly
173
10
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
8. Access, Cost, and Quality of Medical Care: Where Are We Heading?
183
48
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
9. A Note from Louise: Understanding Women's Health in Appalachia
231
14
JUDY M. PERRY
PART IV Culture and Complexities
245
104
10. Beauty Myths and Realities and Their Impact on Women's Health
249
27
JANE SPRAGUE ZONES
11. Old Woes, Old Ways, New Dawn: Native American Women's Health Issues
276
24
ANN METCALF
12. Asian/Pacific American Women and Cultural Diversity: Studies of the Traumas of Cancer and War
300
29
KAREN L. ITO
RITA CHI-YING CHUNG
MARJORIE KAGAWA-SINGER
13. Issues in Latino Women's Health: Myths and Challenges
329
20
SUSAN C.M. SCRIMSHAW
RUTH E. ZAMBRANA
CHRISTINE DUNKEL-SCHETTER
PART V Intersections of Race, Class, and Culture
349
98
14. African American Women's Health: The Effects of Disease and Chronic Life Stressors
353
27
NIKKI V. FRANKE
15. Women, Power, and Mental Health
380
17
LYNN WEBER
TINA HANCOCK
ELIZABETH HIGGINBOTHAM
16. Who Cares? Women as Informal and Formal Caregivers
397
28
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
17. Older Women: Income, Retirement, and Health
425
22
VIDA YVONNE JONES
CARROLL L. ESTES
PART VI Power and Social Control
447
100
18. Responses to Stigma and Marginality: The Health of Lesbians, Imprisoned Women, and Women with HIV
451
22
NANCY E. STOLLER
19. "You Can Be Safer, But...": Different Women, Many Violences
473
47
Introduction
473
3
ADELE E. CLARKE
LORA BEX LEMPERT
Women's Lived Experiences of Abuse
476
10
LORA BEX LEMPERT
The Battered Women's Movement
486
6
BRANDY M. BRITTON
Rape
492
9
BRANDY M. BRITTON
A Survivor Speaks about the Victim Input Program
501
2
SALLY PICKELS
Anti-Lesbian Violence
503
7
BEATRICE VON SCHULTHESS
Sexual Harassment
510
10
BRANDY M. BRITTON
20. The Ongoing Politics of Contraception: Norplant and Other Emerging Technologies
520
27
CHERI A. PIES
PART VII Challenges and Choices for the Twenty-first Century
547
90
21. Research to Improve Women's Health: An Agenda for Equity
551
29
DEBORAH NARRIGAN
JANE SPRAGUE ZONES
NANCY WORCESTER
MAXINE JO GRAD
22. Strengths and Strongholds in Women's Health Research
580
27
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
DIANA TAYLOR
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
ADELE E. CLARKE
23. Conversing with Diversity: Implications for Social Research
607
37
SHERYL BURT RUZEK
VIRGINIA L. OLESEN
ADELE E. CLARKE
Contributors
637
8
Index
645