Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : beyond gender matters / Colleen Varcoe, Olena Hankivsky and Marina Morrow -- 1. Our bodies, our selves' in context : reflections on the women's health movement in Canada / Marina Morrow -- 2. More than age and biology : overhauling lifespan approaches to women's health / Olena Hankivsky -- 3. Feminist methodology and health research : bridging trends and debates / Marina Morrow and Olena Hankivsky -- 4. Postcolonial feminist theoretical perspectives and women's health / Annette Browne, Victoria L. Smye and Colleen Varcoe -- 5. Gender-based analysis and health policy : the need to rethink outdated strategies / Olena Hankivsky -- 6. Engendering evidence : transforming economic evaluations / Olena Hankivsky and Jane Friesen -- 7. Women's health and the politics of poverty and exclusion / Colleen Reid -- 8. Women's health at the intersection of gender and the experience of international migration / Bilkis Vissandjee, Wilfreda Thurston, Alisha Apale and Kamrun Nahar -- 9. Cultures of dis/ability : from being stigmatized to doing disability / Lisa Diedrich -- 10. Negotiating sexualities in women's health care / Cynthia Mathieson -- 11. Mothering and women's health / Colleen Varcoe and Gweneth Hartrick Doane --

12. Women, drug regulation, and maternal/state conflicts / Susan C. Boyd -- 13. Women's voices matter : creating women-centred mental health policy / Marina Morrow -- 14. Between visibility and vulnerability : women and HIV/AIDS / Meredith Raimondo -- 15. Breast cancer : lived experience and feminist action / Sue Wilkinson -- 16. Selling 'the change' : a comparison of the dangers of hormone replacement therapies in profit versus national health care delivery systems / Brian Richter and Cindy Patton -- 17. Women's health and cardiovascular care : a persistent divide / Lynn E. Young -- 18. From global to local and over the rainbow : violence against women / Olena Hankivsky and Colleen Varcoe -- 19. Women's access to maternity services in Canada : historical developments and contemporary challenges / Cecilia Benoit, Dena Carroll and Rachel Westfall -- 20. Relocating care : home care in Ontario / Pat Armstrong.