INTERSECTIONALITY AND WOMEN’S HEALTH: CHARTING A PATH TO ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES

Abstract

Scholars and activists working both within and outside the massive health-related machinery of government and the private sector and within and outside communities of color address the same fundamental questions: Why do health disparities exist? Why have they persisted over such a long time? What can be done to significantly reduce or eliminate them?

Citation

Weber, L. and Parra-Medina, D. (2003), "INTERSECTIONALITY AND WOMEN’S HEALTH: CHARTING A PATH TO ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES", Texler Segal, M., Demos, V. and Kronenfeld, J.J. (Ed.) Gender Perspectives on Health and Medicine (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 7), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 181-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1529-2126(03)07006-1