This collection considers how health, and "women’s health" are shaped through intersecting systems of power based on colonialism, sexism, racism, heterosexism, and ableism.

Marina Morrow is a professor and Chair of the School of Health Policy and Management at York University.
Hankivsky Olena :

Olena Hankivksy is a professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.
Varcoe Colleen :

Colleen Varcoe is a professor and associate director in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia.

"This book offers cutting-edge analyses of women’s health. Its critical social science framing will make it a go-to book for innovations in teaching and for research about persistent historical contexts that continue to block justice for women. The editors are intersectionality scholars and the book chapters reflect the broad reach of the contributors’ academic, activism, and policy knowledge across central, and at times silenced, issues in women’s health. The chapters present a clearly cohesive set of interconnected ideas, which is often difficult to achieve in an edited volume."

Victoria Smye, Associate Professor and Director of the Arthur Labatt School of Nursing, Western University:

"Women’s Health in Canada takes a bold step into the twenty-first-century realities of women’s lives by foregrounding the complex array of women’s multiple intersecting identities, including and beyond gender, as shaped by social, economic, historical, political, and ideological processes influencing health and wellness and health inequity. Specific attention is paid to anti-racist, anti-oppression, decolonizing strategies for addressing inequity across multiple domains of practice – clinical, education, research, and policy – with relevance to nursing, social work, medicine, and beyond."