Women's Health Matters

Taylor & Francis

Addressing the recent upsurge of interest in the issues surrounding it, provides a valuable and practical guide to doing feminist research on women's health. > \nWomen's Health Matters, like its sister volume Women's Health Counts, is an invaluable practical guide to doing feminist research on women's health. Written by experienced researchers and practitioners, these lively accounts of research work range from getting the research idea, through obtaining the funding and doing the research, to the practical problems faced, and eventual publication. The book provides an ideal antidote to textbooks and manuals, giving the reader a taste of the problems and pleasures of doing real research. > Introduction, Helen Roberts; Chapter 1 Getting at the oyster, Ann Oakley; Chapter 2 Black women\u2019s health matters, Jenny Douglas; Chapter 3 Food for thought, Margaret Thorogood, Angela Coulter; Chapter 4 Birth and violence against women, Sheila Kitzinger; Chapter 5 With women, Mary J. Ren.