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Gender, Race, Class and Health: Intersectional Approaches

ISBN: 978-0-787-97663-7

November 2005

Jossey-Bass

472 pages

Description
Gender, Race, Class, and Health examines relationships between economic structures, race, culture, and gender, and their combined influence on health. As useful as it is readable, this book is ideal for students and professionals in public health, sociology, anthropology, and women's studies.

Praise for Gender, Race, Class, and Health

"More and more students in public health, sociology, and anthropology are studying these intersections but this is arguably the first book to truly do justice to the topic."
—Meredith Minkler, professor of Health and Social Behavior, University of California, Berkley, and coeditor, Community Participatory Research for Health

"Weaving a beautiful tapestry out of the cutting edge views of an outstanding group of interdisciplinary scholars, this edited volume provides new depth and focus to the study of intersectionality and health."
—Sherman A. James, Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

"At last, a groundbreaking book highlighting the health consequences of the intersections of race, gender, and social class! Linking public policy and cultural analysis to ethnographic and biomedical data, the volume provides important insights into how intersecting inequalities have complex consequences on the ground and under the skin."
—Alan H. Goodman, president-elect, American Anthropological Association and professor, Biological Anthropology and Natural Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts

"While delineating theories as to forces operating within the social context, it moves beyond to practice and to thoughtful policy prescriptions and advocacy."
—June Jackson Christmas, professor emeritus, Behavioral Medicine, City University of New York Medical School, and past president, American Public Health Association

About the Author
Amy J. Schulz, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a research associate professor with joint appointments in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and associate director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health at the University of Michigan.

Leith Mullings, Ph.D., is Presidential Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and recipient of the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America (1997) from the Society for the Anthropology of North America.

Features
  • Editors’ reputation: Schultz, an up and coming academic star, is already among the best known social scientists working in a public health setting, at the internationally acclaimed School of Public Health at University of Michigan. Mullings has a distinguished appointment with one of the top U.S. anthropology programs..
  • Breaking Ground: The book employs the concept of “intersectionality”, which enhances the analysis of thorny social issues. The “intersectionality” approach is moving at top speed from the social sciences into public health. Ideal for the student or uninitiated practitioner, the book includes chapters with the needed background on key theories of health disparities so that no one gets left behind.
  • Major-name contributors: Among them: H. Jack Geiger, Community Medicine and Director of the Program in Health, Medicine, and Society, Sophie Davis School of Medicine City College of New York, Mary Northridge, School of Public Health, Columbia University, and editor, American Journal of Public Health (published by APHA), and Ruth Zambrana, Professor, Women’s Studies, University of Maryland, College Park (coeditor of Health Issues in the Latino Community, Jossey-Bass)