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WOMEN'S HEALTH & URBAN LIFE:

AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ⁽¹⁾

(Vol. 3, Issue 1, May 2004)

CONTENTS:

General Editor’s Introduction (download full text pdf file)
AYSAN SEV’ER (University of Toronto)

Abortion & Reproductive Rights Under Nationalist Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe (download full text pdf file)
PATRIZIA ALBANESE (Ryerson University)

The Elusive Pregnancy: Choice & Empowerment in Medically Assisted Conceptions (download full text pdf file)
MAUREEN BAKER (Auckland University, New Zealand)

African American Women’s Emotional Responses to Breast Cancer (download full text pdf file)
PHYLLIS D. MORGAN (John Hopkins University)
VICTORIA MOCK (John Hopkins University)
LINDA ROSE (John Hopkins University)
JOSHUA FOGEL (City University of New York)

Women in Masters Rowing: Exploring Healthy Aging
(download full text pdf file)
ANDRÉA RIESCH TOEPELL (Brock University)
ANN MARIE GUILMETTE (Brock University)
STEPHANIE BROOKS (Brock University)

The Authors Of The Current Issue:

Patrizia Albanese (Ph.D.) Is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Sociology at Ryerson University in Toronto. She teaches and does research in the areas of gender and families, as well as sociology of children and childhood, and race and ethnic relations. She has been researching and publishing in the area of women, families and nationalism for a number of years.

Maureen Baker (Ph.D.) heads the Sociology Department at the
University of Auckland in New Zealand but spent the first 25 years of her
career in Canada, most recently at McGill University. She is the author of
numerous books and articles relating to family trends, comparative
family policies, women and work, and welfare to work issues.)

Stephanie Brooks is the program advisor in the Department of Sport
Management in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock
University, Ontario. She also teaches for several departments in the
Faculty in areas related to leisure and aging, therapeutic benefits of
humour, healthy communities, and health promotion. Professor Brooks is
an avid rower who has enjoyed Masters rowing as a coxswain, rowing in competitions for pairs and singles.

Joshua Fogel (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Business and
Behavioural Sciences in the Department of Economics at Brooklyn
College, City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Fogel studies the
psychological impact of Internet use, breast cancer coping mechanisms,
and the experiences among women from a variety of ethnic groups and
how they cope with breast cancer.

Ann Marie Guilmette (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor in the
Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, and in the Women Studies
program at Brock University, Ontario. Her research areas include social
psychological dimensions of leisure for disadvantaged populations especially her focus pertains to children’s play and humour, women and
ageing, such adult forms of leisure as humour and gambling, addictions
and leisure education.

Victoria Mock (DNSc, FAAN) is an Associate Professor and Director
of the Center for Nursing Research, Johns Hopkins University School of
Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Mock collaborates on mulitidisciplinary biobehavioural research with emphasis on clinical outcomes related to symptom management, quality-of-life, and coping/adaptation in cancer patients and their families.

Phyllis D. Morgan (Ph.D., APRN, BC) is a Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns
Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr.
Morgan studies the unique cultural experiences among African American
women experiencing chronic illness. She has presented at several national
conferences on the breast cancer experience of African American women.

Linda Rose (Ph.D., RN) is an Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins
University School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Rose has expertise in conducting qualitative studies with patients and families
coping with chronic illness. She has published extensively on family and
family-related topics related to vulnerable populations.

Aysan Sev’er (Ph.D.) is a 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, University of Toronto Press) has received the Canadian Women’s Studies Book Award (2004). She is also the founder and the general editor of Women’s Health & Urban Life journal.

Andréa Riesch Toepell (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor in the
Department of Community Health Sciences in the Faculty of Applied
Health Sciences at Brock University, Ontario. She teaches and does
research in the field of women’s health, population health, gender and
health, violence as a determinant of health among women, aging and
women in sport, and HIV/AIDS among vulnerable populations.

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.