Women and Gender
Providing the best medical care for all people requires the study of the health of people of all genders and gender identities throughout life. Gender, gender bias, and biology interact with each other and are interacting determinants of well-being and disease.
The study of women and gender, in relation to healthcare, allows for recognition of diversity. This helps increase awareness and action against the inequalities seen in participation, treatment, and bodily autonomy within the healthcare system. Central to this is the understanding that the protection of human rights is fundamental to health.
Resources Related to Women and Gender
Bringing Psychotherapy to the Underserved by
BOOK CHAPTER: Out of the Shadows - Improving Health Care for Sexual Minority and Gender Diverse Individuals: Examines the challenging problem of providing psychotherapy services to underserved, often marginalized populations, both within and outside of the U.S.
ISBN: 9780190912727Publication Date: 2020
Counseling Special Populations in Schools by
BOOK CHAPTER: Counseling Students Who Are Pregnant or Parenting: This book address nine unique and overlapping special populations of students whose life circumstances put them at greater risk for poor mental health outcomes and school failure: students who are homeless, students living in foster care, students involved with the juvenile justice system, students who are LGBTQ, students who are pregnant or parenting, students who are gifted, students with incarcerated parents, students in military families, and students who are at risk for school failure and dropout.
ISBN: 9780199355785Publication Date: 2016
Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging (Biopolitics) by
Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new reproductive technologies of this century. In Freezing Fertility, Lucy van de Wiel takes us inside the world of fertility preservation—with its egg freezing parties, contested age limits, proactive anticipations and equity investments—and shows how the popularization of egg freezing has profound consequences for the way in which female fertility and reproductive aging are understood, commercialized and politicized.
ISBN: 9781479868148Publication Date: 2020
Gender in Science and Technology by
What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies.
ISBN: 9783839424346Publication Date: 2014
Handbook of Evidence-Based Mental Health Practice with Sexual and Gender Minorities by
This resource offers a comprehensive array of evidence-based approaches for treating sexual and gender minority clients' mental health concerns.
ISBN: 9780190669300Publication Date: 2019
Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment by
This 38-chapter handbook reviews current knowledge of positive body image and embodiment, as well as future directions for work in these areas, which will be useful for mental health researchers, practitioners, advocates, and activists.
ISBN: 9780190841874Publication Date: 2019
Kuerer's Breast Surgical Oncology by
This work is specifically dedicated to the newly emerging field of surgical breast oncology.
ISBN: 9780071601764Publication Date: 2010
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Healthcare by
This important text fills an informational void about the practical health needs of LGBT patients in both the primary care and specialty settings remains, and serves as a guide for LGBT preventive and specialty medicine that can be utilized within undergraduate medical education, residency training, and medical practice.
ISBN: 9783319197517Publication Date: 2016
LGBTQ Cultures by
Drawn from real-world experience and current research, this resource paves the way for healthcare professionals to provide well-informed, culturally sensitive healthcare to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) patients.
ISBN: 9781496394606Publication Date: 2017
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstrual Studies by
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, is animated by the central question: '"what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across the life course?" The chapters--diverse in content, form and perspective--establish Critical Menstruation Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical dimensions.
ISBN: 9789811506130Publication Date: 2020
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Schooling by
Studies of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth show them to be at risk for some of the greatest difficulties experienced by adolescents: many of those problems have been traced directly to negative experiences in schooling. After more than a decade of research focused on the experiences of LGBT students in schools, a new generation of studies has begun to identify characteristics of schools that are associated with inclusion and safety for LGBT students, including practices and policies that are associated with positive school climate and student well-being. This book brings together contributions from a diverse group of researchers, policy analysts, and education practitioners from around the world to synthesize the implications for practice and policy of contemporary research on sexual orientation, gender identity, and schooling.
ISBN: 9780199387656Publication Date: 2016
Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: the Fenway Guide by
Provides a roadmap for clinicians to provide culturally responsive care that meets the primary, preventive, and specialty health needs of transgender and gender diverse adult patients.
ISBN: 9781260459937Publication Date: 2021
Women's Health Across the Lifespan by
Covers factors influencing women's health care such as sex and gender differences, menstrual and ovarian conditions, contraceptive methods, pregnancy health care, and cancer in women.
ISBN: 9781585281947Publication Date: 2010
Women with Serious Mental Illness by
This resource calls attention to a topic and a population that have been overlooked in research and psychotherapy—women with serious mental illnesses (schizophrenia, severe depression, bipolar disorder, and complex post-traumatic stress disorder). The book focuses on the history of mistreatment, marginalization, and oppression women with serious mental illness have encountered, not only from the general public but within the mental health system as well.
ISBN: 9780190922351Publication Date: 2021
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- Frontiers in Global Women’s Health Incorporates research from all disciplines related to the health problems facing women around the world, especially those living in low-middle income countries.
- International Journal of Transgender Health Offers an international, multidisciplinary scholarly forum for publication in the field of transgender health in its broadest sense for academics, practitioners, policy makers, and the general population.
- International Journal of Transgenderism Offers an international, multidisciplinary scholarly forum for publication in the field of transgender health in its broadest sense for academics, practitioners, policy makers, and the general population.
- Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing Primary source of information for meeting the challenges of providing optimal healthcare for women. The journal aims to be a core resource for cutting-edge advancements and clinical applications of new nursing practice, therapeutic protocols for managing health problems in women, and innovative research on gender-based issues that impact treatment and nursing care.
- Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity Scholarly journal dedicated to the dissemination of information in the field of sexual orientation and gender diversity
- Reproductive Health Covers all aspects of human reproduction: adolescent health, female fertility, midwifery.
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Publishes research on sexual and reproductive health, rights, law and policies including family planning, sexual violence, HIV, STIs, and maternal health.
- Women's Health Issues A peer-reviewed, bimonthly, multidisciplinary journal that publishes research and review manuscripts related to women's health care and policy.
- Women's Midlife Health An open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers original and review articles focused on the physical and mental health of women during midlife, including articles on aging, reproductive aging and their inter-relationship.
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- American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists Offers healthcare provider and consumer information on the health of women at all ages from an organization of US physicians with a specialty in obstetrics and gynecology
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine Healthcare provider and consumer information regarding female and male reproduction from a nonprofit organization of physicians and other healthcare providers.
- Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Nonprofit organization dedicated to broadening quality health services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Provides information on many health-related topics.
- OASH: Office on Women's Health Coordinates women's health efforts across HHS and addresses critical women's health issues by informing and advancing policies, educating health care professionals and consumers, and supporting innovative programs.
- Office of Research on Women's Health Serves as a focal point for women's health research at the NIH and ensures that research conducted and supported by NIH adequately addresses issues regarding women's health.
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America Nonprofit organization offers specific details about family planning and birth control.
- UMass Center for Women and Work The UMass Lowell Center for Women and Work (CWW) is a vibrant community of scholars who are dedicated to the Center’s mission to advance knowledge about the relationship between gender and work through research, enhance understanding of this relationship through education and training, and challenge inequalities, particularly through institutional change.