Womens Health - Gender and Pain

This book provides a feminist lens to the approach of mental health and medical care, and challenges the traditional notion of gender to expand beyond biology. The chapters in this book were originally published in Journal of Feminist Family Therapy.

List of contents

Introduction - Women's Health: Gender and Pain 1. Disrupting Cisnormativity, Transnormativity, and Transmisogyny in Healthcare: Advancing Trans Inclusive Practices for Medical Family Therapists 2. Reducing Barriers: Integrated Collaboration for Transgender Clients 3. The Interaction of Health Stressors and Power Imbalances in Partnered Women: Wellbeing Outcomes 4. Experiencing Gender and Culture Differences in Global Healthcare Settings: American Students Providing Therapy in Jordan 5. Fibromyalgia in Women across the Lifespan: A Family Feminist Therapy Approach 6. Women and Chronic Pain: Understanding the challenges and empowering for change

About the author

Kristina S. Brown is Professor and Chair of the Couple and Family Therapy Department at Adler University, USA. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy and Editor of the new AAMFT Systemic Ethics Textbook. Dr. Brown is a feminist qualitative researcher with a broad focus on the experiences of women across identities as represented in her scholarly work. She lives in her "empty nest" in the Chicago Loop with her husband of 30 years and their two polydactyl cats, Cameron and Ferris.

Product details

• Authors: Kristina S. Brown
• Assisted by: Kristina S. Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032718934
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3271893-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Feminist Family Therapy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Couples & Family, Family psychology, Psychotherapy, Women’s health, Feminism & feminist theory, Public health & preventive medicine, Feminism and feminist theory, Public health and preventive medicine