Women's Health in Canada

Challenges of Intersectionality, Second Edition

Edited by Marina Morrow, Olena Hankivsky, and Colleen Varcoe
Categories: Gender & Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies, Health, Social Work & Psychology, Social Work, Health & Medicine, Social Sciences, Disability Studies, Social Movements & Activism
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9781442623958, 480 pages, January 2022
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781442623965, 480 pages, January 2022
Paperback : 9781442628472, 480 pages, March 2022
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Acknowledgements
Part One: Conceptual Foundations

Introduction to Women’s Health
Olena Hankivsky, Marina Morrow, and Colleen Varcoe

1. Women’s Health in the 21st Century
Olena Hankivsky

2. Overhauling Life Course Approaches to Women’s Health: Towards an Intersectional Approach
Olena Hankivsky and Nicole Etherington

Part Two: Historical Foundations

3. Historical and Contemporary Reflections on the Women’s Health Movement in Canada
Marina Morrow and Christabelle Sethna

4. Synergies of Oppression: Barriers Faced by Older Immigrant Women in Accessing Services for Elder Abuse
Sepali Guruge and Astuko Matsuoka

5. All My Relations – Indigenous Women’s Health in Canada
Billie Allan and Janet Smylie

6. Reproductive Politics: Reproductive Choice to Reproductive Justice
Holly Mckenzie

Part Three: Methodological Foundations: Operationalizing Social Justice and Social Change

7. Decolonizing Research
Colleen Varcoe and Holly Mckenzie

8. From Gender Mainstreaming Toward Mainstreaming Intersectionality
Olena Hankivsky and Gemma Hunting

9. Engaging Communities: Intersectional Feminist Participatory Action Research
Marina Morrow, Colleen Reid, Ania Landy, Sabina Chatterjee, Wendy Frisby, Cindy Holmes, and Audrey Yap

Part Four: Exemplifying Change (Health Policy and Practice)

10. Social Determinants of Injection Drug Use Among a Community Sample of Sex Workers: Intersections of Structure and Agency Across the Life Course
Cecilia Benoit, Mikael Jansson, Rachel Phillips, Helga Hallgrímsdóttir, and Kate Vallance

11. Toward a Broader Conceputalization of Trans Women’s Sexual Health
Greta Bauer and Rebecca Hammond

12. “Women and Madness” Revisited: The Promise of Intersectional and Mad Studies Frameworks
Marina Morrow

13. The Intersecting Social and Structural Contexts of Navigating HIV Risk and Access to Care among Women
Andrea Krüsi and Kate Shannon

14. Social Transformation and Urban Regeneration: Wellbeing and Women’s Marginalisation in Community Contexts
Judith Sixsmith, Ryan Woolrych, and Mei Lan Fang

15. Violence Against Women: Intersections of Health and Justice
Kate Rossiter

16. Evolving Disability Scholarship and Activism in Canadian Contexts: Making Room for Intersectionality
Christine Kelly

17. Understanding Migrant Women’s Health: Looking Through Intersectional, Gendered and Human Rights Lens
Bilkis Vissandjée and Ilene Hyman

18. An Intersectional Analysis of the Ontario Dementia Strategy
Ngozi Iroanyah

19. Prioritizing Non-Communicable Diseases at the Intersections: Global Action in the Canadian Context
Olena Hankivsky, Claire Sommerville, and Mary Mandhar

20. Beyond Sex and Gender Difference in Funding and Reporting of Health Research
Olena Hankivsky, Kristen W. Springer, and Gemma Hunting

Contributors

Description

Women’s Health in Canada considers the challenges relating to the conceptualization of women’s health. While emphasizing the importance of taking an intersectional approach to women’s healthcare, this book also focuses on the social and structural determinants at play. This revised and updated second edition brings together a collection of new chapters and contributors who collectively shed light on the problems and risks involved in perceiving women’s healthcare using a strictly "gender"- or "sex"-based lens.

Contributors foreground an understanding of power as it is mediated through a range of social relations based on gender, race, culture, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, class, and geography and the ways in which privilege and oppression intersect to shape health and system responses to health. This new edition includes updates on what is currently known about women’s health nationally and internationally and situates the chapters in the current Canadian health care and policy context. Scholarship is foregrounded in new developments in gender and intersectional health research and policy. Collectively, this volume explores the important histories and contemporary realities in women’s health experiences.