Main description:

Women's Health Matters, like its sister volume Women's Health Counts, is an invaluable practical guide to doing feminist research on women's health. Written by experienced researchers and practitioners, these lively accounts of research work range from getting the research idea, through obtaining the funding and doing the research, to the practical problems faced, and eventual publication. The book provides an ideal antidote to textbooks and manuals, giving the reader a taste of the problems and pleasures of doing real research.

Contents:

Introduction, Helen Roberts; Chapter 1 Getting at the oyster, Ann Oakley; Chapter 2 Black women's health matters, Jenny Douglas; Chapter 3 Food for thought, Margaret Thorogood, Angela Coulter; Chapter 4 Birth and violence against women, Sheila Kitzinger; Chapter 5 With women, Mary J. Renfrew, Rona McCandlish; Chapter 6 'My health is all right, but I'm just tired all the time', Jennie Popay; Chapter 7 'Isn't she coping well?', Frances Price; Chapter 8 Working in the dark, Marina Barnard; Chapter 9 Research and audit, Edith M. Hillan; Chapter 10 Answering back, Helen Roberts;