A unique and innovative collection, Critical Perspectives in Public Health Feminisms gives space to chronically underrepresented voices in public health through engaging with Public Health Feminisms (PHF). PHF describes a technique of analysis that attends gender and intersections of race, class, sexuality, age, and ability in public health.
Including the perspectives of Black, Indigenous, women of colour, refugee, immigrant, (dis)abled, neurodivergent, two-spirit, non-binary, trans and/or gender diverse scholars, this text aims to fill a gap in public health scholarship and practice. Through a social justice approach, it critically addresses how public health services, policies, and programming are unable to protect and promote the health of all Canadians due to their lack of representation and inclusivity from inception to execution.
This accessible and thought-provoking volume is essential for upper-year undergraduate and graduate students across all areas in public health and gender and health studies. It provides analytical, theoretical, and methodological tools to inform work in public health services, policies, and programming through a PHF lens.
Acknowledgements Cover Art by Matsuko Friedland Contributing Authors
Chapter 1 Public Health Feminisms, An Introduction Renée Monchalin
Chapter 2 A Really Good Brown Nurse Leanne Poitras Kelly
Chapter 3 Exploring Gender Equality and Equity in Canadian Global Health Institutions Michelle Amri, Bianca Carducci, Katrina M. Plamondon, Muriel Mac-Seing, Jeannie Shoveller, and Erica Di Ruggiero
Chapter 4 Stuck in a High Wire Act: Ways of Understanding Immigrant Women’s Mental Health beyond Biomedicine Nicola Gailits, Denise Gastaldo, Izumi Sakamoto, Celeste Bilbao-Joseph, Giselle Vazquez, and Lori E. Ross
Chapter 5 Spurring the Witch Hunt: Abortion, Colonialism, Stigma, and Indigenous Knowledges in Canada Arie Ross
Chapter 6 Deconstructing Ableism in Healthcare Maren B. Akyürek and Natalie Frandsen
Chapter 7 Queer and Trans Perspectives on Obstetric and Gynecological Violence: Centring Those at the Margins to Capture the Intersectional Effects of the Phenomenon Mylène Shankland and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Chapter 8 Black Feminism in Critical Public Health Research, Policy, and Programming: Theory and Practice for Promoting the Health and Well-being of Black Women Tola Mbulaheni, Fiqir Worku, Falan Bennett, Nakia Lee-Foon, and Kimberly Robinson
Chapter 9 Taking a Reproductive Justice Lens in Public Health Policy: A Case Study on Family Law for 2SLGBTQIA+ Parents and Families Michelle W. Y. Tam and Lori E. Ross
Chapter 10 Strangers in Our Homeland: The Impact of Racism across Healthcare Policy and Delivery for Indigenous Peoples in Canada Mikaela D. Gabriel
Chapter 11 The Critical Importance of Addressing Gender and Racial Inequities in the Public Health System Christina Salmon and Andrea Tricco
Chapter 12 Reclamation of Matriarchy and Kinship Systems Miranda Lesperance
Chapter 13 Engendering a Feminist Ethic of Care to Training a New Generation of Public Health Researchers: Reflecting on 4theRecord Sarah Flicker, Nadha Hassen, Jessica Fields, and 4theRecord Research Team, with Amanda Galusha, Anjalee Srinivasan, Caitlin Arizala, Emily Sutton, Jessica J. Mencia, Julia Ferguson, Kethmi Egodage, Kezia Arinka, Nadia Bevan, Reece Rabanal, Seventy Hall, Vaishnavy Puvipalan, and Zarin Tasnim
Chapter 14 Chronicles of Public Health Doctoral Students: Overcoming the Ivory Tower through a Revolution of “Self-Care” for a Better Future Corey McAuliffe, Ifrah Abdillahi, Karima Joy, Astrid Escrig-Pinol, Apondi J. Odhiambo, and Renée Monchalin
Chapter 15 Public Health Feminism and Housing: Status Quo or Transformational? Melissa Perri and Patricia O’Campo
Chapter 16 Public Health Feminist Futures and Moving Forward Renée Monchalin
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Biography
Renée Monchalin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria and a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar. Renée is also an Affiliate Scientist with the Well Living House, situated within the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, and an Assistant Professor (Status Only) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Born and raised in Fort Erie, Ontario, Renée is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario from the historic community of Sault Ste. Marie.
“Hiy hiy to Renée Monchalin and the distinguished circle of scholars she has assembled for this gift of voice and wisdom. The compelling and diverse narratives burst through reductive euro-patriarchal public health mono-frames onto our kitchen tables, grounding us in the plurality of lived experience. Readers leave enriched with social theories, community-informed approaches, and tools for change.”
—Janet Smylie, MD, MPH, Métis-Cree, Director, Well Living House Action Research Centre, Unity Health Toronto, and Professor, DLSPH and DFCM, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
“This timely collection addresses the importance of decolonial and intersectional approaches and strategies to public health. Based upon experiential and scholarly knowledge of those often silenced within Canadian public health disciplines, authors explore intersectional and gendered experiences with regard to race, colonialism, identity, class, and moving beyond the gender binary. This book is essential for teaching students and researchers how public health in Canada is embedded within patriarchal and colonial ways of knowing and doing, and for offering ways to integrate a decolonial and feminist praxis for more equitable public health.”
—Fiona Green, Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Winnipeg
“The text provides readers with a rich collective of chapters that speak to the necessary revisioning of healthcare in Canada. The book challenges the current state of affairs within the healthcare system and introduces readers to critical approaches and voices needed to enact change. Further, the text models researcher positionality and intersectionality for students and researchers, as well as new ways of writing, doing research, and engaging with topics and approaches to healthcare.”
—Claire Carter, Associate Professor and Department Head, Department of Gender, Religion and Critical Studies, University of Regina
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