Women's Health and Urban Life

General Editor's Introduction
Aysan Sev'er (University of Toronto)

Articles:

Too Close to Home, Too Toxic for Children: Mental Health Consequences of Witnessing Violence Against Mothers (download full text pdf file)
Aysan Sev'er (University of Toronto)

Casual Jobs, Work Schedules and Self-reported Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Visiting Home Care Workers (download full text pdf file)
Iik Urla Zeytinolu (McMaster University), Margaret A. Denton (McMaster University) & Sharon Davies (McMaster University)

Losing Heart: The Estrogen Dilemma - Rethinking Health Research for Midlife Women (download full text pdf file)
Zelda Abramson (York University)

"Possession": A Feminist Phenomenological and Post-structuralist Analysis of Illegitimate Pregnancy, Pregnant Embodiment and Adoption (download full text file)
Nicole Pietsch (Sexual Assault & Violence Intervention Services of Halton )

Zelda Abramson (Ph.D.) received her doctorate in Sociology from York University. Her dissertation thesis examined midlife women's labour force (in)activity. She is presently teaching part time, on the issues of women, health and aging in the Division of Social Sciences and the Department of Sociology at York University. As well, she has worked over the last 20 years as a women's health counsellor and activist.

Sharon Davies (M.A.) is a Research Associate at the McMaster Centre for Gerontological Studies at McMaster University and has worked as a Research Assistant at the McMaster Research Centre for the Promotion of Women's Health. Her research interests include home care, aging and women and work.

Margaret A. Denton (Ph.D.) is a Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Gerontological Studies at McMaster University. She is the Director of the McMaster Centre for Gerontological Studies and was Principal Investigator at the McMaster Research Centre for the Promotion of Women's Health. Her research interests include women's health, income inequalities in later life and issues in the delivery of health services.

Nicole Pietsch (B.A.) Is currently working at the Sexual Assault & Violence Intervention Services of Halton in social action, women's advocacy and counselling for abused women. She has completed research on the subjects of embodiment, the politics of reproduction, feminist corporeality and sexuality.

Aysan Sev'er (Ph.D.) Is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She teaches sociology of gender and family and writes extensively on sexual harassment, intimate partner abuse of women, link between separation and violence, cross-cultural forms of wife abuse and extreme violence against women such as "honour killings". Her latest book on women who have left their abusive partners (Fleeing the House of Horrors) is soon to be released by the University of Toronto Press. She is also the founder and the general editor of Women's Health and Urban Life journal.

Isik Urla Zeytinolu (Ph.D.) is a Professor in Human Resources and Management at the School of Business at McMaster University. She was the Principal Investigator at the McMaster Research Centre for the Promotion of Women's Health. Her research interests include nonstandard and flexible employment issues, women, work, and occupational health, and comparative industrial relations/global human resource management.

1. The Women's Health & Urban Life: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal is generously funded by the Wellesley Central Health Corporation and is permanently housed at the Sociology Department, University of Toronto. The founder and the first general editor is Aysan Sev'er, University of Toronto.