ABSTRACT

This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.

part I|115 pages

Feminist Revisioning

part II|67 pages

Destabilizing Methods

chapter 4|17 pages

One New Reproductive Technology, Multiple Sites

How Feminist Methodology Bleeds into Everyday Life

chapter 5|19 pages

Naked Methodology

Researching the Lives of Women with HIV/AIDS

chapter 6|11 pages

La Sufrida

Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina Health

chapter 7|18 pages

Whose Science of Food and Health?

Narratives of Profession and Activism from Public-Health Nutrition

part III|44 pages

(Re)Constructing Experience

chapter 8|15 pages

Warning Signs

Acting on Images

chapter 9|19 pages

The Girl in the Cast

chapter 10|8 pages

(Post)Colonial Psychiatry

The Making of a Colonized Pathology

part IV|71 pages

Challenging New World Reproductive Orders

chapter 13|17 pages

Will the “Real” Mother Please Stand Up?

The Logic of Eugenics and American National Family Planning

chapter 14|17 pages

The Social Construction of the “Immoral” Black Mother

Social Policy, Community Policing, and Effects on Youth Violence

part V|57 pages

Revised and Disruptive Agendas for Women's Health

chapter 15|21 pages

Rethinking Feminist Ideologies and Actions

Thoughts on the Past and Future of Health Reform

chapter 16|19 pages

Agendas for Lesbian Health

Countering the Ills of Homophobia

chapter 17|12 pages

Midlife Women's Health

Conflicting Perspectives of Health Care Providers and Midlife Women and Consequences for Health