Social Science Women's Studies
Health Inequities in Canada
Intersectional Frameworks and Practices
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2011
- Category
- Women's Studies, Health Care Delivery, General, Health Policy, Human Services, Research
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774819756
- Publish Date
- May 2011
- List Price
- $95.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774819763
- Publish Date
- Jan 2012
- List Price
- $39.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774819770
- Publish Date
- May 2011
- List Price
- $39.95
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Description
There is a growing recognition that existing theories on, and approaches to, health inequities are limited in their ability to capture how they are produced through changing, co-constituted, and intersecting effects of multiple forms of oppression. Intersectionality considers the interactions and combined impacts of social locations and structural processes on the creation and perpetuation of inequities. This volume brings together activists, scholars, and community-based researchers to apply interpretations of intersectionality to health and organizational governance cases. By addressing specific health issues, it demonstrates that inequities cannot be understood without the interrogation of power and diverse social locations and structures that shape lives and experiences of health.
About the author
Olena Hankivisky is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Institute for Critical Studies in Gender and Health at Simon Fraser University.