Routledge international handbook of women's sexual and reproductive health / edited by Jane M. Ussher, Joan C. Chrisler and Janette Perz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pubertal development and menarche : physiological and developmental aspects / Margaret L. Stubbs -- Menarche : psychosocial and cultural aspects / Maria Luisa Marván & Verónica Alcalá-Herrera -- The menstrual cycle : its biology in the context of silent ovulatory disturbances / Jerilynn C. Prior -- The menstrual cycle : attitudes and behavioral concomitants / Joan C. Chrisler & Jenifer A. Gorman -- Premenstrual mood disorders : a feminist psychosocial perspective / Jane Ussher & Janette Perz -- Menopause and midlife : psychosocial perspectives and interventions / Myra S. Hunter -- Menstrual cycle-related disorders : polycystic ovary syndrome, dysmenorrhea, and menstrual migraine / Nancy Fugate Woods & Nancy J. Kenney -- Women's experience of endometriosis / Elaine Denny & Annalise Weckesser -- Breast and reproductive cancers : genomics and risks / Cheryl B. Travis -- Psychosocial aspects of women's sexual and reproductive well-being after cancer / Chloe Parton -- Contraception across the reproductive life-course / Deborah Bateson -- Abortion in context / Jeanne Marecek -- Women's experiences of infertility / Jessica Barnack-Tavlaris -- Fertility and cancer / Michelle Peate, Lesley Stafford, & Yasmin Jayasinghe -- Assisted conception : fertility preservation, surrogate motherhood, gamete/Embryo Donation, and in Vitro Fertilization / Olga B. A. van den Akker -- "Adolescent pregnancy" : social problem, public health concern, or neither? / Catriona Ida Macleod & Tracey Feltham-King -- Smoking and pregnancy : risk factors, women's experiences, and interventions / Michael Ussher, Felix Naughton, Cailtlin Notley, & Linda Bauld -- Medical aspects of pregnancy / Annemarie Hennessy -- Miscarriage / Heather Rowe & Alexandra Hawkey -- The ultimate in women's labor : stillbirth and grieving? Joanne Cacciatore & Jill Wieber Lens -- Psychological aspects of pregnancy and pregnancy health care in their social and cultural contexts / Jane R.W. Fisher & Karin Hammarberg -- Childbirth and sexuality / Hannah Dahlen & Sahar Sobhgol -- Postpartum adjustment : psychological aspects / Paula Nicolson -- Understanding perinatal mental health problems : prevalence, risk factors, and approaches to prevention, early identification, and treatment / Virginia Schmied -- Women's sexual health and embodiment / Niva Piran -- Sexual health of adolescent girls / S. Rachel Skinner, Cristyn Davies, Jennifer Marino, Jessica Botfield, Larissa Lewis -- Older women and sexual health : social, relational, and medical considerations / Camille J. Interligi & Maureen C. McHugh -- Sexuality and sexual dysfunction : psychological perspectives and interventions / Julia Velton & Sonia Milani -- Sexuality and sexual dysfunction : critical analyses / Peggy Kleinplatz, Lianne A. Rosen, Maxime Charest & Alyson K. Spurgas -- HIV, STIs, risk taking, and sexual health / Jennifer Power -- Impacts of sexual violence on women's sexual health / Kyja Noack-Lundberg -- Feminist perspectives on child sexual abuse / Sam Warner -- Female genital mutilation and genital surgeries / Hilary Burrage -- Shame, silence, and secrecy : migrant and refugee women's sexual and reproductive health and embodiment / Alexandra Hawkey -- Reproductive health disparities among women experiencing homelessness / Courtney Cronley & Mona Nahar -- Reproductive justice and culturally safe approaches to sexual and reproductive health for indigenous women and girls / Pat Dudgeon & Abigail Bray -- Reproductive health of women in low-and middle-income countries / Kirsten I. Black & Miriam O'Connor -- Experiences of reproductive and sexual health and health care among women with disabilities / Heather Dillaway, Brianna Marzolf, Heather Fritz, Wassim Tarraf, & Catherine Lysack -- Women with intellectual and developmental impairments--differences not deficits / Jan Burns -- Lesbian, bisexual, queer and transgender women's sexual and reproductive health / Ruth McNair.

"This handbook adopts a life-cycle approach to examine key milestones and events in women's sexual and reproductive health. Using a multi-disciplinary perspective, the contributors draw on psychology, sociology, medicine, public health, cultural studies, and women's studies. A feminist perspective underpins the chapters, and reproductive health is examined in the context of women's lives and relationships. The book also acknowledges the intersection of identity positions and their influence on women's health, including gender, culture, social class, sexuality, age, and relationship context. This is essential reading for scholars and students interested in women's reproductive health"--