Women’s History Month – Women’s Health

Week of March 22, 2010

In the News: Women’s History Month at FAU concludes with the Women’s Leadership Forum on Friday, March 26: “Issues in Women’s Health: Research, Public Health Policy and Advocacy” https://fauf.fau.edu/women.

Abortion in the United States: A Reference Handbook
By Dorothy E. McBride. ABC-CLIO, 2008
Call Number: HQ767.5.U5 M3727 2008

All My Babies: A Midwife’s Own Story
Directed by Othello C. Wilson. Image Entertainment, 2007
Call Number: RG950 .A45 2007

African American Women’s Health and Social Issues
Edited by Catherine Fisher Collins.  Praeger Publishers, 2006
Call Number: RA448.5.N4 A445 2006

The Battered Woman Syndrome: With Research Associates
By Lenore E. A. Walker. Springer, 2009
Call Number: HV6626.2 .W33 2009

Beyond Reproduction: Women’s Health, Activism, and Public Policy
By Karen L. Baird, Dana-Ain Davis, and Kimberly Christensen. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009
Call Number: RA564.85 .B348 2009

Black Women’s Risk for HIV: Rough Living
By Quinn M. Gentry. Haworth Press, 2007
Call Number: RA643.84.G46 G46 2007

Born in the USA: A Documentary about Childbirth in America (DVD)
Directed by Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider. Fanlight Productions, 2000
Call Number: RG518.U5 B67 2007 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS: The Research, the Politics, the Women’s Responses
By Edith White. McFarland, 1999
Call Number: RJ387.A25 W43 1999

Busting Out (DVD)
Directed by Ray Wilson. Bullfrog Films, 2004
Call Number: GT498.B74 B87 2004 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Complementary Health for Women: A Comprehensive Treatment Guide for Major Disease and Common Conditions with Evidenced Based Therapies, Methods of Use, Dosage and Treatment Effects, Cautions, and Handy Tips: from Alzheimer’s to Stroke
By Carolyn Chambers Clark. Springer Publishing Company, 2009.
Call Number: RA778 .C567 2009

The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women
Edited by Lauren Slater, Jessica Henderson Daniel, and Amy Elizabeth Banks. Beacon Press, 2003
Call Number: RC451.4.W6 C65 2003

Doing Without: Women and Work after Welfare Reform
Edited by Jane Henrici. University of Arizona Press, 2006
Call Number: HV95 .D63 2006

Domestic Violence Screening and Intervention in Medical and Mental Healthcare Settings
By L. Kevin Hamberger and Mary Beth Phelan. Springer Publishing Company, 2004
Call Number: HV6626 .H267 2004

The Health of Sexual Minorities: Public Health Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations
Edited by Ilan H. Meyer and Mary E. Northridge. Springer, 2007
Call Number: HV1449 .H42 2007 (Also available via Springer)

Learning to Dance: Advancing Women’s Reproductive Health and Well-Being from the Perspectives of Public Health and Human Rights
Edited by Alicia Ely Yamin. Harvard University Press, 2005
Call Number: RA564.85 .L43 2005

Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy
By Samantha King. University of Minnesota Press, 2006
Call Number: RC280.B8K56 2006

The Politics of Abortion
By Ann Hendershott. Encounter Books, 2006
Call Number: RA395.A3 H462 2006

Positive Perspectives on Prevention: Southern Women’s Voices on HIV/AIDS in an African American Community
By Monica Melton. Florida Atlantic University Ph.D. Thesis, 2007
Call Number: NX001.5 .M457 2007

Progress in Exercise and Women’s Health Research
Edited by Janet P. Coulter. Nova Science Publishers, 2008
Call Number: RA781 .P716 2007

Psychology of Women: Handbook of Issues and Theories
Edited by Florence L. Denmark and Michele A. Paludi. Praeger, 2008
Call Number: HQ1206 .P747 2008 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

The Reproductive Rights Reader
Edited by Nancy Ehrenreich. New York University Press, 2007
Call Number: KF3760 .R47 2007

Rural Women’s Health: Mental, Behavioral, and Physical Issues
Edited by Raymond T. Coward, et al. Springer, 2006
Call Number: RA771.6.U6 R87 2006

Social Work and Women’s Health: Resources on Health Empowerment, Advocacy, and Literacy (HEAL)
By Carolyn S. Carter. Council on Social Work Education, 2006
Call Number: RA564.85 .C37 2006

Speaking from the Body: Latinas on Health and Culture
Edited by Angie Chabram-Dernersesian and Adela de la Torre. University of Arizona Press, 2008
Call Number: RA778.4.H57 S64 2008

Toward Equity in Health: A New Global Approach to Health Disparities
Edited by Barbara C. Wallace. Springer, 2008
Call Number: RA418 .H3894 2008

Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology
By Sharra Louise Vostral. Lexington Books, 2008
Call Number: RG108 .V67 2008

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (DVD)
Produced by Christine Herbes-Sommers, et al., and Directed by Llewellyn M. Smith, et al. California Newsreel, 2008
Call Number: RA448.4 .U56 2008 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Violent Partners: A Breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse
By Linda G. Mills. Basic Books, 2008
Call Number: HV6626.2 .M58 2008

The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics
Edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and Shannon Lundeen. Springer, 2006
Call Number: RC280.B8 V65 2006

Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine, and the Media
Edited by Janine Marchessault and Kim Sawchuk. Routledge, 2000.
Call Number: RA418.5.M4 W54 2000

Women and Depression: A Handbook for the Social, Behavioral, and Biomedical Sciences
Edited by Corey L. M. Keyes and Sherryl H. Goodman. Cambridge University Press, 2006
Call Number: RC537 .W658 2006

Women’s Health
By Carrie Sadler, et al. Oxford University Press, 2007
Call Number: RC48.6 W636 2007

Women’s Health Care: Activist Traditions and Institutional Change
By Carol Sachs Weisman. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
Call Number: RA564.85 .W435 1998