Introduction - Alice Dan PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES AND MODELS Women's Health Scholarship - Angela Barron McBride and William Leon McBride From Critique to Assertion Why a Curriculum on Women's Health? - Lila A Wallis Women's Health and Curriculum Transformation - Karen Johnson and Eileen Hoffman The Role of Medical Specialization Women's Health and Family Medicine - Gail Webber A Canadian Perspective From Female Disease to Women's Health - Susan Cohen et al New Educational Paradigms Feminist Theory and Health Psychology - Jean A Hamilton Tools for an Egalitarian, Woman-Centred Approach to Women's Health Self-in-Relation Theory - Lucy Candib Implications for Women's Health Women's Health - Michelle Harrison New Models of Care and a New Academic Discipline PART TWO: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES Building a New Specialization on Women's Health - Carmen Barroso An International Perspective Community Based Research - Sara Segal Loevy and Mary Utne O'Brien The Case for Focus Groups Women and National Health Care Reform - Judy Norsigian A Progressive Feminist Agenda Institutionalizing Women's Oppression - Judith Wuest The Inherent Risk in Health Policy Fostering Community Participation My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lost Her Womb on This Side of the Border - Ruth Behar Contraception and Abortion - Nada L Stotland Challenges Now and for the Next Century Women's Sexuality - Leonore Tiefer Not a Matter of Health Problems and Prospects of Contemporary Abortion Provision - Jean Hunt and Carol Joffe Women and HIV - Mary Driscoll et al PART THREE: VIOLENCE, ABUSE AND WOMEN'S HEALTH The Negative Impact of Crime Victimization on Women's Health and Medical Utilization - Mary P Koss Domestic Violence - Carole Warshaw Challenges to Medical Practice Gender Entrapment - Beth E Richie An Exploratory Study of the Link Between Gender-Identity Development, Violence Against Women, Race/Ethnicity, and Crime Among African American Battered Women Gender Based Abuse - Lori Heise The Global Epidemic PART FOUR: RESEARCH IN WOMEN'S HEALTH Gender Bias in Clinical Research - Sue V Rosser The Difference it Makes Real and Perceived Legal Barriers to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Trials - Michelle Oberman Health Policy and Breast Cancer Screening - Renee Royak-Schaler The Politics of Research and Intervention Towards a Feminist Methodology in Research on Battered Women - Nanette Silva PART FIVE: PRACTICE ISSUES Is Care a Remedy? - Sue Fisher The Case of Nurse Practitioners Reframing Women's Weight - Joan C Chrisler Does Thin Equal Healthy? Lesbian Health Issues - Anne Pollinger Haas An Overview Health Services for Women with Disabilities - Carol J Gill, Kristi L Kirschner and Judith Panko Reis Barriers and Portals Factors Related to Secondary Prevention Behaviors for Breast Cancer - Diane Lauver Tension and Paradox in Framing Interstitial Cystitis - Denise C Webster Epilogue - Alice Dan The Groundwork for Specialization in Women's Health