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WGST 303: Gender, Women, and Health (Rev. C12) Report a Broken Link

WGST 303: Gender, Women, and Health broadly explores women, gender, and health, including how health and health care are gendered across a wide array of issues and topics.

Unit 1: Introduction to Gender, Women, and Health

Cho, K. (Director). (2012). Status quo? The unfinished business of feminism in Canada [Film]. National Film Board of Canada. 
Hankivsky, O., Reid, C., Cormier, R., Varcoe, C., Clark, N., Benoit, C., & Brotman, S. (2010). Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women’s health research. International Journal for Equity in Health, 9, 1–15.

Unit 2: Gender, Health, and (Em)power(ment)

Devis, J. (Executive Producer). (2020). Power and health (Season 1, Episode 1) [TV series]. In Power and health. Public Media Group of Southern California/PBS SoCal.
Heise, L., Greene, M. E., Opper, N., Stavropoulou, M., Harper, C., Nascimento, & M., Zewdi, D., on behalf of the Gender Equality, Norms, and Health Steering Committee. (2019). Gender inequality and restrictive gender norms: Framing the challenges to health. Lancet, 393(10189), 2440–2454.
Benoit, C., Belle-Isle, L., Smith, M., Philips, R., Shumka, L., Atchison, C., Jansson, M., Loppie, C., & Flagg, J. (2017). Sex workers as peer health advocates: Community empowerment and transformative learning through a Canadian pilot program. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16(1), 1–16.
Monteith, H., Anderson, B., & Williams, P. L. (2020). Capacity building and personal empowerment: Participatory food costing in Nova Scotia, Canada. Health Promotion International, 35(2), 321–330.

Unit 3: Violence, Gender, and Health

Smye, V., Varcoe, C., Browne, A. J., Dion Stout, M., Josewski, V., Ford-Gilboe, M., & Keith, B. (2021). Violence at the intersections of women’s lives in an urban context: Indigenous women’s experience of leaving and/or staying with an abusive partner. Violence Against Women, 27(10), 1586–1607. 
Williams, J. R., Gonzalez-Guarda, R. M., Halstead, V., Martinez, J., & Joseph, L. (2020). Disclosing gender-based violence during health care visits: A patient-centered approach. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 35(23/24), 5552–5573.

Unit 4: Gender, Environment, and Health

Sorensen, C., Murray, V., Lemery, J., & Balbus, J. (2018). Climate change and women’s health: Impacts and policy directions. PLoS Medicine, 15(7), 1–10. 
Williams, L., Fletcher, A., Hanson, C., Neapole, J., & Pollack, M. (2018). Women and climate change impacts and action in Canada: Feminist, Indigenous, and intersectional perspectives. Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women.
Hill, N. S., Dorow, S., Barnetson, B., Martinez, J. F., & Matsunaga-Turnbull, J. (2019). Occupational health and safety for migrant domestic workers in Canada: Dimensions of (im)mobility. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 29(3), 397–421.
MacKendrick, N., & Cairns, K. (2019). The polluted child and maternal responsibility in the US environmental health movement. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 44(2), 307–332.

Unit 5: Gender and Reproductive Health Care

Bobel, C., & Fahs, B. (2020). From bloodless respectability to radical menstrual embodiment: Shifting menstrual politics from private to public. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 45(4), 955–983.
Freeman, A., Neiterman, E., & Varathasundaram, S. (2021). Women’s experiences of health care utilization in cases of early pregnancy loss: A scoping review. Women and Birth, 34(4), 316–324.
Paynter, M. J., Bagg, M. L., & Heggie, C. (2021). Invisible women: Correctional facilities for women across Canada and proximity to maternity services. International Journal of Prisoner Health, 17(2), 69–86. 
Ryan, C., Abrar, A., & Shawana, C. (2021). Forced or coerced sterilization in Canada: An overview of recommendations for moving forward. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 16(1), 275–290. 

Unit 6: Gender, Aging, and Health

Carney, G. M. (2018). Towards a gender politics of aging. Journal of Women and Aging, 30(3), 242–258. 
Tuohy, D., & Cooney, A. (2019). Older women’s experiences of aging and health: An interpretive phenomenological study. Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 5, 1–10.
Dillaway, H. (2020). Living in uncertain times: Experiences of menopause and reproductive aging. In C. Bobel, I. T. Winkler, B. Fahs, K. A. Hasson, E. A. Kissling, & T. Roberts (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of critical menstruation studies (pp. 253–268). Palgrave Macmillan.
Seeley, M. (2012). Women, aging, and residential long-term care. In P. Armstrong, B. Clow, K. Grant, M. Haworth-Brockman, B. Jackson, A. Pederson, & M. Seely (Eds.), Thinking women and health care reform in Canada (pp. 107–138). Women’s Press.
Kortes-Miller, K., Boule, J., Wilson, K., & Strinchcombe, A. (2018). Dying in long-term care: Perspective from sexual and gender minority older adults about their fears and hopes for end of life. Journal of Social Work in End-Of-Life and Palliative Care, 14(2/3), 209–224.

Unit 7: Gender and Mental Health and Illness

Hartung, C. M., & Lefler, E. K. (2019). Sex and gender in psychopathology: DSM-5 and beyond. Psychological Bulletin, 145(4), 390–409.
Ussher, J. M. (2013). Diagnosing difficult women and pathologising femininity: Gender bias in psychiatric nosology. Feminism and Psychology, 23(1), 63–69. 
Williams, C. C., Curling, D., Steele, L. S., Gibson, M. F., Daley, A., Green, D. C., & Ross, L. E. (2017). Depression and discrimination in the lives of women, transgender and gender liminal people in Ontario, Canada. Health and Social Care in the Community, 25(3), 1139–1150.

Unit 8: Making It Better: The Future of Health and Well-Being

Fisher, J., & Makleff, S. (2022). Advances in gender-transformative approaches health promotion. Annual Review of Public Health, 43, 1–17.