Women's Health and Urban Life

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WOMEN'S HEALTH & URBAN LIFE:

AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL⁽¹⁾

(Vol.7, Issue 1, May 2008)

CONTENTS:

CONTENTS
General Editor’s Introduction (download pdf)
AYSAN SEV’ER (University of Toronto Scarborough)

A Case Study: Retrospective Analysis of Homeless Women in a
Canadian City (download pdf)
MAGDALENA SOLINA RICHTER (University of Alberta)
JEAN CHAW-KANT (University of Alberta)

Living With a White Disease: Women of Colour & Their Engagement
with Breast Cancer Information (download pdf)
JENNIFER NELSON (University of Toronto)
TERESA MACIAS (OISE/University of Toronto)

Can Micro-Credit Empower HIV+ Women? An Exploratory Case
Study in Northern Vietnam (download pdf)
PAULINE OOSTERHOFF (Medical Committee Netherlands
Vietnam)
NGUYEN THU ANH (Hanoi Medical University)
PHAM NGOC YEN (Hanoi National University)
PAMELA WRIGHT (Medical Committee Netherlands Vietnam)
ANITA HARDON (University of Amsterdam)

Discarded Daughters: The Patriarchal Grip, Dowry Deaths, Sex
Ratio Imbalances & Foeticide in India (download pdf)
AYSAN SEV’ER (University of Toronto)

The Authors Of The Current Issue:

Nguyen Thu Anh is a lecturer at Hanoi Medical University and a
Ph.D. candidate at the Amsterdam School for Social Research.

Jean Chaw-Kant (MSc) Jean Chaw-Kant is a Research Project
Coordinator in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. She
is currently involved in several research projects that focus on
vulnerable populations such as (1) homeless women and youth
in Canada, (2) media’s portrayal of the homeless and homelessness
and (3) the influence of stigma on access to health services
by persons with HIV+ status.

Anita Hardon (Ph.D.) is Professor in Anthropology of Care and
Health at the Amsterdam School for Social Research.
Teresa Macias is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of
Sociology & Equity Studies in Education (OISE) at University of
Toronto. She is also an Assistant Professor of anti-discriminatory
and anti-racist social work at York University, School of Social
Work.

Jennifer Nelson (Ph.D.) is a research consultant and Assistant
Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University
of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of
Sociology & Equity Studies in Education (OISE) at University of
Toronto.

Pauline Oosterhoff is a senior health advisor at the Medical
Committee Netherlands Vietnam and a Ph.D. candidate at the
Amsterdam School for Social Research.

Magdalena Solina Richter (RN, RM, D-CUR) is an Assistant
Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Canada. Her
research program focuses on the social determinants of health
and more specifically, research on homelessness to inform public
policies and frontline practices that protect and promote health of
the low socioeconomic and homeless populations. Her recent
projects focus on a global understanding of homelessness.

Aysan Sev’er (Ph.D.) is Professor of Sociology at the University of
Toronto. Her current research focuses on extreme forms of violence
against women in India and in south-eastern Turkey. She is the founding editor of the Women’s Health & Urban Life Journal
and the recipient of the Canadian Person’s Day Award (1998) and
the Canadian Women’s Studies Book Award (2004). Currently,
she is serving as the Special Advisor to the Principal on Equity
Issues at University of Toronto at Scarborough and writing on
honour-killings and dowry deaths. She recently organized an
international conference on Health, Family & Gender (ISA-RC06-
2007).

Pamela Wright is the country representative of the Medical
Committee Netherlands Vietnam.

Pham Ngoc Yen is a Master’s student in sociology at the Hanoi
National University, Faculty of Sociology, School of Social
Sciences and Humanities.

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.

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