Introduction

This book began life as a symposium at the 1992 Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society. Entitled 'Women and Health: Feminist Perspectives', this symposium was unusual in at least two respects. First, it included cutting-edge research originating within a variety of disciplines (including cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary work), not just from within psychology; and, second, its focus was feminist research on health, rather than health research on women (Graham, 1993a).