Gender, race, class, and health : intersectional approaches / Amy J. Schulz, Leith Mullings, editors. - San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2006. - xx, 423 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Tables and figures. - Acknowledgments. - The editors. - The contributors. - Part One: Intersectionality and health. - 1. Intersectionality and health : an introduction / Leith Mullings, Amy J. Schulz. - Part Two: Race, class, gender, and knowledge production. - 2. Reconstructing the landscape of health disparities research : promoting dialogue and collaboration between feminist intersectional and biomedical paradigms / Lynn Weber. - 3. Moods and representations of social inequality / Emily Martin. - 4. Constructing whiteness in health disparities research / Jessie Daniels, Amy J. Schulz. - Part Three: The social context of health and illness. - 5. The intersection of race, gender, and SES : health paradoxes / Pamela Braboy Jackson, David R. Williams. - 6. Identity development, discrimination, and psychological well-being among African American and Caribbean black adolescents / Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Barbara J. Guthrie, James S. Jackson. - 7. Disparities in Latina health : an intersectional analysis / Ruth E. Zambrana, Bonnie Thornton Dill. - 8. Immigrant workers : do they fear workplace injuries more than they fear their employers? / Marianne P. Brown. - Part Four: Structuring health care: access quality and inequality. - 9.

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Health and race--United States.
Racism--Health aspects--United States.
Health--Sex differences--United States.
Social status--Health aspects--United States.
Discrimination in medical care--United States.
Health status indicators--United States.
Equality--Health aspects--United States.
Minorities--Medical care--United States.
Women's health services--United States.

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2005 O-649 WA 300 / G325 2006