Bibliograph

Wings of gauze, women of color and the experience of health and illness, edited by Barbara Bair and Susan E. Cayleff

Type

Label

Wings of gauze, women of color and the experience of health and illness, edited by Barbara Bair and Susan E. Cayleff

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wings of gauze

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

27266809

Responsibility statement

edited by Barbara Bair and Susan E. Cayleff

Sub title

women of color and the experience of health and illness

Table Of Contents

My guardian spirits / Ama R. Saran -- Cracking the skull, mending the soul : Sonia Sanchez's role as teacher/healer/poet / Frenzella Elaine De Lancey -- Madame Neau : the practice of ethno-psychiatry in rural Louisiana / Wonda Lee Fontenot -- Perceptions of discrimination, psycho-social functioning and physical symptoms of African-American women / Carol M. Cummings, Adrienne M. Robinson, and Gretchen E. Lopez -- Older women of the project : the socio-medical consequences of urban change / Linda Dumas -- Cognitive coping strategies among the mothers of children with sickle cell disease / Shirley A. Hill -- Health care decision making among Cambodian refugee women / Barbara Frye -- Mind and body : revising approaches to the analysis of curanderismo / Françoise Vergés -- Images of health : perceptions of the urban American-Indian women / Denis Drevdahl -- Visiting the women and neighborhood of my past / Gregoria RodriguezMary Petersen : a life of healing and renewal / Joanne B. Mulcahy, with Mary Petersen -- Homesickness, illness and death : Native-American girls in government boarding schools / Brenda Child -- Managing on their own : ailing Black women in Philadelphia and Charleston, 1870 to 1918 / Priscilla Ferguson Clement -- Empowered caretakers : a historical perspective on the roles of granny midwives in rural Alabama / Sheila P. Davis and Cora A. Ingram -- Childbirth, lay institution building, and health policy : the Traditional Childbearing Group, Inc., of Boston in a historical context / Gloria Waite -- Nutrition, breastfeeding and ethnicity : understanding maternal and child health beliefs among new-wave immigrants / Caroline Westbrook ArnoldBreast cancer, breast self-examination, and African-American women / Teresa C. Jacob, Leslie E. Spieth, and Nolan E. Penn -- Resignation and resourcefulness : older Hispanic women's responses to breast cancer / Michelle Saint-Germain and Alice Longman -- Cancer in the family / Lois Lyles -- Battered women of color in public health care systems : racism, sexism, and violence / Beth E. Richie and Valli Kanuha -- Barriers to birth control use among Hispanic teenagers : providers' perspectives / Katherine Fennelly -- Living with the threat of AIDS : perceptions of health and risk among African-American women IV drug users / Diane K. Lewis -- Poverty, drug use, and AIDS : converging issues in the life stories of women in Harlem / Michael C. Clatts -- Latinas and HIV infection/AIDS : reflections on impacts, dilemmas, and struggles / Gloria J. Romero, Lourdes Arguelles, and Anne M. Rivero -- The use of women's culture in AIDS outreach / Mary Romero

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