Our chemical selves : gender, toxics, and environmental health

Scott, Dayna Nadine, 1974- (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780774828345
ISBN: 9780774828338
ISBN: 9780774828352
ISBN: 9780774828369
Physical Description: print
xxi, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2015]
Copyright: ℗♭2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Water is life / Josephine Mandamin -- The production of pollution and consumption of chemicals in Canada / Dayna Nadine Scott [and 3 others] -- Wonderings on pollution and women's health / M. Ann Phillips -- Protecting ourselves from chemicals : a study of gender and precautionary consumption / Norah MacKendrick -- Sex and gender in Canada's chemicals management plan / Dayna Nadine Scott and Sarah Lewis -- Trace chemicals on tap : the potential for gendered health effects of chronic exposures via drinking water / Jyoti Phartiyal -- Consuming DNA as chemicals and chemicals as food / Bita Amani -- Consuming carcinogens : women and alcohol / Nancy Ross [and 3 others] -- The impact of phthalates on women's reproductive health / Maria P. Velez [and 3 others] -- Plastics recycling and women's reproductive health / AimeÌe L. Ward and Annie Sasco -- Xenoestrogens and breast cancer : chemical risk, exposure, and corporate power / Sarah Young and Dugald Seely -- Plastics industry workers and breast cancer risk : are we heeding the warnings? / Margaret M. Keith [and 5 others] -- Power and control at the production-consumption nexus : migrant women farmworkers and pesticides / Adrian A. Smith and Alexandra Stiver -- Thinking about thresholds, literal and figurative / Dayna Nadine Scott.