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 Marvan and Veronica Alcala-Herrera
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. Women's experience of endometriosis - Elaine Denny and Annalise Weckesser
9. Breast and reproductive cancers: genomics and risks - Cheryl B. Travis
10. Psychosocial aspects of women's 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. Women's experiences of infertility - Jessica L. Barnack-Tavlaris
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 Feltham-King
17. Smoking and pregnancy: risk factors, women's 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 women's 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. Women's 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 women's sexual health - Kyja Noack-Lundberg
32. Feminist perspectives on child sexual abuse - Sam Warner
33. Female genital mutilation and genital surgeries - Hilary Burrage
Part VI. Marginalized women's health
34. Shame, silence and secrecy: migrant and refugee women's 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 O'Connor
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 women's sexual and reproductive health - Ruth P. McNair
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