ABSTRACT
Women's Health Matters, like its sister volume Women's Health Counts, is an invaluable practical guide to doing feminist research on women's health. Written by experienced researchers and practitioners, these lively accounts of research work range from getting the research idea, through obtaining the funding and doing the research, to the practical problems faced, and eventual publication. The book provides an ideal antidote to textbooks and manuals, giving the reader a taste of the problems and pleasures of doing real research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|22 pages
Getting at the oyster
One of many lessons from the Social Support and Pregnancy Outcome Study
chapter Chapter 4|18 pages
Birth and violence against women
Generating hypotheses from women's accounts of unhappiness after childbirth
chapter Chapter 6|22 pages
‘My health is all right, but I'm just tired all the time'
Women's experience of ill health
chapter Chapter 7|20 pages
‘Isn't she coping well?'
Providing for mothers of triplets, quadruplets and quintuplets
