This handbook adopts a life-cycle approach to examine key milestones and events in womens sexual and reproductive health, using a multi-disciplinary perspective. This is essential reading for scholars and students interested in womens reproductive health.
The Routledge International Handbook of Womens Sexual and Reproductive Health is the authoritative reference work on important, leading-edge developments in the domains of womens sexual and reproductive health.
The handbook adopts a life-cycle approach to examine key milestones and events in womens sexual and reproductive health. Contributors drawn from a range of disciplines, including psychology, medicine, nursing and midwifery, sociology, public health, womens studies, and indigenous studies, explore issues through three main lenses:
- the biopsychosocial model
- feminist perspectives
- international, multidisciplinary perspectives that acknowledge the intersection of identities in womens lives.
The handbook presents an authoritative review of the field, with a focus on state-of-the-art work, encouraging future research and policy development in womens sexual and reproductive health. Finally, the handbook will inform health care providers about the latest research and clinical developments, including womens experiences of both normal and abnormal sexual and reproductive functions.
Drawing upon international expertise from leading academics and clinicians in the field, this is essential reading for scholars and students interested in womens reproductive health.
Author biographies
Introduction Joan C. Chrisler, Jane M. Ussher and Janette Perz
Part I: Menarche, menstruation and menopause
1. Pubertal development and menarche: physiological and developmental aspects
Margaret L. Stubbs
2. Menarche. psychosocial and cultural aspects Maria Luisa Marvįn and
Verónica AlcalįHerrera
3. The menstrual cycle: its biology in the context of silent ovulatory
disturbances Jerilynn C. Prior
4. The menstrual cycle: attitudes and behavioral concomitants Joan C.
Chrisler and Jenifer A. Gorman
5. Premenstrual mood disorders: a feminist psychosocial perspective Jane M.
Ussher and Janette Perz
6. Menopause and midlife: psychosocial perspectives and interventions Myra
S. Hunter
Part II: Reproductive and gynecological disorders
7. Menstrual-cycle-related disorders: polycystic ovary syndrome, dysmenorrhea
and menstrual migraine Nancy Fugate Woods and Nancy J. Kenney
8. Womens experience of endometriosis Elaine Denny and Annalise Weckesser
9. Breast and reproductive cancers: genomics and risks Cheryl B. Travis
10. Psychosocial aspects of womens sexual and reproductive well-being after
cancer Chloe Parton
Part III: Contraception and infertility
11. Contraception across the reproductive life-course Deborah Bateson
12. Abortion in context Jeanne Marecek
13. Womens experiences of infertility Jessica L. BarnackTavlaris
14. Fertility and cancer Michelle Peate, Lesley Stafford and Yasmin
Jayasinghe
15. Assisted conception: fertility preservation, surrogate motherhood,
gamete/embryo donation and in vitro fertilization Olga B. A. van den Akker
Part IV: Pregnancy and childbirth
16. Adolescent pregnancy: social problem, public health concern, or
neither? Catriona Ida Macleod and Tracey FelthamKing
17. Smoking and pregnancy: risk factors, womens experiences and
interventions Michael Ussher, Felix Naughton, Cailtlin Notley and Linda
Bauld
18. Medical aspects of pregnancy Annemarie Hennessy
19. Miscarriage Heather Rowe and Alexandra J. Hawkey
20. The ultimate in womens labor: stillbirth and grieving Joanne
Cacciatore and Jill Wieber Lens
21. Psychological aspects of pregnancy and pregnancy health care in their
social and cultural contexts Jane R.W. Fisher and Karin Hammarberg
22. Childbirth and sexuality Hannah H. Dahlen and Sahar Sobhgol
23. Postpartum adjustment: psychological aspects Paula Nicolson
24. Understanding perinatal mental health problems: prevalence, risk factors,
approaches to prevention, early identification and treatment Virginia
Schmied
Part V: Sexuality and sexual health
25. Womens sexual health and embodiment Niva Piran
26. Sexual health of adolescent girls S. Rachel Skinner, Cristyn Davies,
Jennifer Marino, Jessica R. Botfield and Larissa Lewis
27. Older women and sexual health: social, relational and medical
considerations Camille J. Interligi and Maureen C. McHugh
28. Sexuality and sexual dysfunction: psychological perspectives and
interventions Julia Velten and Sonia Milani
29. Sexuality and sexual dysfunction: critical analyses Peggy J.
Kleinplatz, Lianne A. Rosen, Maxime Charest and Alyson K. Spurgas
30. HIV, STIs, risk taking and sexual health Jennifer Power
31. Impacts of sexual violence on womens sexual health Kyja NoackLundberg
32. Feminist perspectives on child sexual abuse Sam Warner
33. Female genital mutilation and genital surgeries Hilary Burrage
Part VI. Marginalized womens health
34. Shame, silence and secrecy: migrant and refugee womens sexual and
reproductive health and embodiment Alexandra Hawkey
35. Reproductive health disparities among women experiencing homelessness
Courtney Cronley and Shamsun Nahar
36. Reproductive justice and culturally safe approaches to sexual and
reproductive health for indigenous women and girls Pat Dudgeon and Abigail
Bray
37. Reproductive health of women in low- and middle-income countries
Kirsten I. Black and Miriam OConnor
38. Experiences of reproductive and sexual health and health care among women
with disabilities Heather Dillaway, Brianna Marzolf, Heather Fritz, Wassim
Tarraf and Catherine Lysack
39. Women with intellectual and developmental impairments: differences not
deficits Jan Burns
40. Lesbian, bisexual, queer and transgender womens sexual and reproductive
health Ruth P. McNair
Index
Jane M. Ussher is Professor of Womens Health Psychology at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is the author of 11 books, including The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience and Managing the Monstrous Feminine: Regulating the Reproductive Body. Jane is also editor of the Routledge Women and Psychology book series.
Joan C. Chrisler, PhD, is The Class of 43 Professor Emerita of Psychology at Connecticut College, USA. She is the founding editor of the journal Womens Reproductive Health, co-author of Womans Embodied Self: Feminist Perspectives on Identity and Image, and author of dozens of articles and chapters on womens embodiment and health.
Janette Perz is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Translational Health Research Institute (THRI) at Western Sydney University, Australia. She has undertaken a significant research program in sexual and reproductive health, including premenstrual syndrome, menopause, and concerns about fertility and sexuality after cancer.
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