The Wounds of Exclusion: Poverty, Women’s Health, and Social Justice (International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series)

Reid persuasively demonstrates that the experience of exclusion, characteristic of relative poverty, is as critical a health issue as lack of material resources and negative health behaviours. [She] blends the theories of health promotion with feminist and social justice theories [and] critiques and builds on the dominant discourses of health and individual responsibility to demonstrate how these discourses are both taken up and resisted by the women she came to know. This work persuasively demonstrates how health is a social justice issue, investigates the complexities of examining women's health from an interdisciplinary perspective, and illuminates important policy implications. Allison Tom, University of British Columbia Cover Title Copyright CONTENTS Acknowledgements Preface 1 Exploring Exclusion, Poverty, and Women's Health 2 Poverty, Exclusion, and Women's Health: Using Feminist Action Research to Problematize and Address Poor Women's Health 3 Research Context and Methods 4 The Women's Stories 5 Poor Women's Exclusion and Health 6 Negotiating the “Other” Identity: Legitimacy, Power, and Discourses of Health and Poverty 7 Lofty Ideals and Lived Experiences: The Research Team as Feminist Action Research 8 Women's Health and Social Justice: Implications, Recommendations, and Conclusions Epilogue Bibliography Index This participant observer study chronicles the stories of a group of poor Canadian women, their experience with exclusion by health and social service providers, and their involvement in a feminist action research project. Chronicles the stories of a group of poor Canadian women, their experience with exclusion by health and social service providers, and their involvement in a feminist action research project. From publisher description