Health and Social Issues of Native American Women: : Judith Salmon Kaur: Praeger

Health and Social Issues of Native American Women

Description

This book serves as a much-needed source of information on the social and health issues that impact the health of Native American women in the United States, accompanied by invaluable historical, cultural, and other contextual data about this sociocultural group.

Health and Social Issues of Native American Women is the first book that specifically explores and discusses health and related social issues within the world of Native American women, providing strong historical and cultural perspectives as well as other contextual information that is often missing or misrepresented in other works about Native American women.

Comprising contributions from mostly Native American women scholars, the work presents key background information on native women's health, health care delivery systems, and sociocultural history, and its chapters address the changing role of native women in Alaska and other parts of Indian country. Each author taps her specific area of expertise and knowledge to spotlight specific native women's health problems, such as nutrition, aging, domestic violence, diabetes, and substance abuse.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Judith Salmon Kaur

1: Introduction

Jennie R. Joe and Francine C. Gachupin

2: Changing and Diverse Roles of Women in American Indian Culture

Teresa D. LaFromboise and Bayley J. Marquez

3: Alaska Native Women: Forty Years of Sociocultural change

Rosita Kaahani Worl

4: The Impact of Federal Government Policies on American Indian and Alaska Native Health Care

Terry M. Maresca

5: Health Disparity: The Morbidity and Mortality Picture

Linda Burhanisstipanov

6: Becoming an Elder: Native Women Aging

Emily A. Haozous and R. Turner Goins

7: Addressing Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Native American Communities

Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan

8: The Struggle with the Devastation of Diabetes

Jennie R. Joe

9: Domestic Violence in American Indian Communities: Background, Culture, and Legal Issues

Mary Rogers and Jennifer Giroux

10. Native American Women: HIV/AIDS Risk and Activism

Irene S. Vernon

11. Differences in Cancer Patterns in American Indian/Alaska Native Women Across the U.S.

Teshia G. Arambula Solomon and Carol Goldtooth-Begay

12. Three Native Sister: Being Young and the Need to Fit-in

Nina S. Wampler and Lorenda Belone

13. Protections to Consider when Engaging American Indians/

Alaska Natives in Human Subject Research

Francine C. Guchapin

14. Contributors' Biographies

Product details

Published	Sep 20 2012
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	304
ISBN	9780313397134
Imprint	Praeger
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anchored firmly with numerous and weighty references, this text fills a gap in both the feminist literature relating
to native women and the scholarly literature concerning the health of Native peoples, especially women.

Feminist Collections
This groundbreaking work expressly ties social problems such as poverty and domestic violence to the state of women's health in Indian Country. . . . This rigorous piece of scholarship calls upon those in the forefront of studying the impact of social problems on Native women's health, delivering a thorough assessment.

Choice
Those interested in contemporary Native American issues, or readers interested in women's studies, will discover a wealth of information in these essays.

Library Journal