Communicating Women's Health

<p>This volume explores the conditions under which women are empowered and feel entitled to make the health decisions that are best for them. At its core it illuminates how the most basic element of communication voice has been summarily suppressed for entire groups of women when it comes to control of their own sexuality reproductive lives and health. By giving voice to these women’s experiences the book shines a light on ways to improve health communication for women.</p><p>Bringing together personal narratives key theory and literature and original qualitative and quantitative studies the book provides an in-depth comparative picture of how and why women’s health varies for distinct groups of women. Organized into four parts—historical influences on patient and provider perceptions breast cancer the silence and the shame make it taboo: mothering reproduction and womanhood and sex sexuality relational health and womanhood—each section is introduced with a brief synthesis and discussion of the key questions addressed across the chapters. </p>