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  • The Managed Body

    Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South

    by Chris Bobel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The Managed Body productively complicates ‘menstrual hygiene management’ (MHM)—a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in the Global South. Bobel offers an invested critique of the complicated discourses of MHM including its conceptual and practical links with the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) development sector, human rights and ‘the girling of development.’ Drawing on ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Body Battlegrounds

    Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations

    Edited by Chris Bobel, Samantha Kwan ...
    Body Battlegrounds explores the rich and complex lives of society's body outlaws—individuals from myriad social locations who oppose hegemonic norms, customs, and conventions about the body. Original research chapters (based on textual analysis, qualitative interviews, and participant observation) along with personal narratives provide a window into the everyday lives of people rewriting the norms ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

    Edited by Chris Bobel, Inga T. Winkler, Breanne Fahs, Katie Ann Hasson, Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, Tomi-Ann Roberts ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across ... Read more

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    A Resource by and for Transgender Communities

    Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth ...
    There is no one way to be transgender. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource--a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender and gender expansive authors. Inspired by Our Bodies, Ourselves, the classic and powerful compendium written by and for cisgender women, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is widely accessible to the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Vaccine Hesitancy

    Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science

    by Maya Goldenberg ...
    Winner, 2022 PSA Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science AwardThe public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. The controversy over childhood immunization intensified in 1998, when Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Although Wakefield’s findings were later ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Seizing the Means of Reproduction

    Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience

    by M. Murphy ...
    Series series Experimental futures
    In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Doulas and Intimate Labour

    Boundaries, Bodies, and Birth

    Edited by Angela Castañeda, Julie Johnson Searcy ...
    Scholars turn to reproduction for its ability to illuminate the practices involved with negotiating personhood for the unborn, the newborn, and the already-existing family members, community members, and the nation. The scholarship in this volume draws attention to doula work as intimate and relational while highlighting the way boundaries are created, maintained, challenged, and transformed. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Gender

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Benjamin Davis ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The term "gender" was first distinguished from "sex" in the 1950s when psychologists began to discuss the idea of "gender roles," behaviors and responsibilities given to people by a society rather than flowing from their biology. Since then, leaders across disciplines have sought to better understand the roles of biology, psychology, and culture on gender. New language has emerged alongside rich ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

    How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies

    by Chikako Takeshita ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It is the second most prevalent method of female fertility control in the global South and the third most prevalent in the global North. Over its five decades of use ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Childbirth in the Global Village

    Implications for Midwifery Education and Practice

    by Dawn Hillier ...
    Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'?Is the encroachment of the western medical model dehumanising a profoundly human experience?If so, what can midwives and midwife educators do about it?These are the questions at the heart of Childbirth in the Global Village which highlights the role that globalisation plays in changing childbirth practices and its implications for midwifery ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication

    Meaning, Culture, and Power

    by Heather Zoller, Mohan J. Dutta ...
    This volume provides the theoretical, methodological, and praxis-driven issues in research on interpretive, critical, and cultural approaches to health communication. It includes an international collection of contributors, and highlights non-traditional (non-Western) perspectives on health communication. ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Birth By Design

    Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe

    Edited by Raymond De Vries, Cecilia Benoit, Edwin van Teijlingen, Sirpa Wrede ...
    This collection of essays contains leading research in maternity care from Europe, the United States and Canada to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. Birth By Design focuses on the practical side of 'good' social science research. This is a ground-breaking work that looks not only at maternity, but also the act of childbirth. ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD