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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Foreword xi
6. Acknowledgments xx
7. Introduction 3
8. “Consuming” Chemicals
9. Wonderings on Pollution and Women’s Health 31
10. Protecting Ourselves from Chemicals: A Study of Gender and Precautionary Consumption 58
11. Sex and Gender in Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan 78
12. Routes of Women’s Exposures
13. Trace Chemicals on Tap: The Potential for Gendered Health Effects of Chronic Exposures via Drinking Water 107
14. Consuming “DNA as Chemicals” and Chemicals as Food 142
15. Consuming Carcinogens: Women and Alcohol 188
16. Hormones as the “Messengers of Gender”?
17. The Impact of Phthalates on Women’s Reproductive Health 231
18. Plastics Recycling and Women’s Reproductive Health 253
19. Xenoestrogens and Breast Cancer: Chemical Risk, Exposure, and Corporate Power 291
20. Consumption in the Production Process
21. Plastics Industry Workers and Breast Cancer Risk: Are We Heeding the Warnings? 333
22. Power and Control at the Production-Consumption Nexus: Migrant Women Farmworkers and Pesticides 364
23. Conclusion 387
24. Glossary 394
25. Contributors 402
26. Index 406