Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Featured Items

Gender affects access to equitable health care across the planet.

Black Women and Public Health: Strategies to Name, Locate, and Change Systems of Power

Editor

Stephanie Y. Evans, Sarita K. Davis, Leslie R. Hinkson, and Deanna J. Wathington

Description

Includes perspectives from advocates, educators, practitioners, and researchers and examines black women's roles in public health and public policies to address inequities and needs.

Year

2022

A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family, and Health in Europe

Editor

Gabriele Doblhammer and Jordi Gumà

Description

Includes comparison studies, country-specific case studies, and overviews of fertility, gender differences in health, and gender roles.

Year

2018

Doing Harm: The Truth about How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

Author

Maya Dusenbery

Description

Study of bias in research and the U.S. health care system by the editor of Feministing.com.

Year

2018

Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

Author

Celeste Watkins-Hayes

Description

Based on interviews with 114 women living with HIV/AIDS who identify as biracial, black, Latina, or white and 40 AIDS service providers in the Chicago area. Examines intersectional inequality and the social networks and public policies that can provide assistance.

Year

2019

Disasters, Gender, and Access to Healthcare: Women in Coastal Bangladesh

Author

Nahid Rezwana

Description

Based on fieldwork in the Barguna region and includes case studies and personal narratives.

Year

2018

Health Policy in a Time of Crisis: Abortion, Austerity, and Access

Author

Bayla Ostrach

Description

Based on fieldwork at an abortion clinic in Catalonia, Spain.

Year

2017

Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America

Author

Hannah Dudley-Shotwell

Description

Covers the late 1960s to the 1990s.

Year

2020

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

Author

Elinor Cleghorn

Description

Survey of harmful gender-based beliefs and medical practices with supporting case studies and personal narratives.

Year

2021

Health and Health Care Concerns among Women and Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Editor

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld

Description

Covers issues for both patients and providers in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States and includes some material on children and men.

Year

2017

Black Women's Health: Paths to Wellness for Mothers and Daughters

Author

Michele Tracy Berger

Description

Based on fieldwork with African American mothers and their daughters aged 12–18 in North Carolina with a focus on how they communicate with one another about health, their everyday practices, and the inequalities they face from classism, racism, and sexism.

Year

2021