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Women's Health

Contemporary International Perspectives

Jane M Ussher editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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Covering the lifespan of women from puberty to old age, this comprehensive collection provides ground-breaking research and theory that challenges current conceptions of women's health and illustrates the diversity of approaches in this burgeoning field. The interdisciplinary angle of the book will appeal to a wide-ranging readership and includes detailed commentaries on key topics such as anorexia nervosa, depression, women and cancer, sexual abuse, disability, exercise, body image, pregnancy, sexual violence and drug use.

'Brillant! This exciting collection should be on the bookshelf and reading list of everyone concerned with women's health issues. It can only be hoped that the ground-breaking work presented here will be as widely read and taught as it richly deserves to be.'

Professor Valerie Walkerdine, Centre for Critical Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia.


'This volume provides a comprehensive and confident treatment of this vast and vital topic ... In this book the psychology of women's health has come of age.'

Dr Wendy Hollway, School of Psychology, University of Leeds

ISBN: 9781854333087

Dimensions: 250mm x 200mm x 15mm

Weight: 936g

532 pages