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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Evolving Disability Scholarship and Activism in Canadian Contexts: Making Room for Intersectionality

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  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Figures, Tables, and Boxes xi
  4. Acknowledgments xiii
  5. INTRODUCTION Women’s Health in Canada: Critical Intersectional Perspectives on Theory and Policy 1
  6. PART ONE Conceptual Foundations
  7. CHAPTER ONE Women’s Health in the Twenty-First Century 13
  8. CHAPTER TWO Overhauling Life Course Approaches to Women's Health: Towards an Intersectional Approach 36
  9. PART TWO Historical Foundations
  10. CHAPTER THREE Historical and Contemporary Reflections on the Women’s Health Movement in Canada 61
  11. CHAPTER FOUR Elder Abuse as a Health Issue: Barriers Faced by Older Immigrant Women in Accessing Services 99
  12. CHAPTER FIVE All Our Relations: Indigenous Women’s Health in Canada 116
  13. CHAPTER SIX Reproductive Politics: Reproductive Choice to Reproductive Justice 148
  14. PART THREE Methodological Foundations: Operationalizing Social Justice and Social Change
  15. CHAPTER SEVEN Decolonizing Research 165
  16. CHAPTER EIGHT From Gender Mainstreaming towards Mainstreaming Intersectionality 186
  17. CHAPTER NINE Beyond Sex and Gender Differences in Funding and Reporting of Health Research 209
  18. CHAPTER TEN Engaging Communities: Intersectional Participatory Action Research 231
  19. CHAPTER ELEVEN Intersectionality-Based Quantitative Health Research and Sex/Gender Sensitivity: A Scoping Review 254
  20. PART FOUR Exemplifying Change (Health Policy and Practice)
  21. CHAPTER TWELVE Social Influences on Injection Drug Use among a Community Sample of Sex Workers: Intersections of Structure and Agency across the Life Course 275
  22. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Towards a Broader Conceptualization of Trans Women’s Sexual Health 291
  23. CHAPTER FOURTEEN “Women and Madness” Revisited: The Promise of Intersectional and Mad Studies Frameworks 311
  24. CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Intersecting Social and Structural Contexts of Navigating HIV Risk and Access to Care among Women 331
  25. CHAPTER SIXTEEN Social Transformation and Urban Regeneration: Well-Being and Women’s Marginalization in Community Contexts 348
  26. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Violence against Women: Intersections of Health and Justice 371
  27. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Evolving Disability Scholarship and Activism in Canadian Contexts: Making Room for Intersectionality 391
  28. CHAPTER NINETEEN Understanding Migrant Women’s Health: Looking through Intersectional, Gendered, and Human Rights Lenses 409
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY An Intersectional Analysis of the Ontario Dementia Strategy 423
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Prioritizing Non-communicable Diseases at the Intersections: Global Action in the Canadian Context 436
  31. Contributors 453
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