Our chemical selves : gender, toxics, and environmental health

Book 2015

Everyday exposures to common chemicals found in homes, schools, and workplaces have devastating long-term and inter-generational consequences on human health. At the same time, the risks associated with these exposures (and the burdens of managing them) rest disproportionately on the shoulders of women. Written by leading researchers in science, law, and public policy, the chapters in Our Chemical Selves critically examine the system that manufac...

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ISBN:

9780774828345
077482834X

Notes:

Canadiana
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Foreword : Water is life / Josephine Mandamin
Introduction : The production of pollution and consumption of chemicals in Canada / Dayna Nadine Scott [and 3 others]
Wonderings on pollution and women's health / M. Ann Phillips
Protecting ourselves from chemicals : a study of gender and precautionary consumption / Norah MacKendrick
Sex and gender in Canada's chemicals management plan / Dayna Nadine Scott and Sarah Lewis
Trace chemicals on tap : the potential for gendered health effects of chronic exposures via drinking water / Jyoti Phartiyal
Consuming "DNA as chemicals" and chemicals as food / Bita Amani
Consuming carcinogens : women and alcohol / Nancy Ross [and 3 others]
The impact of phthalates on women's reproductive health / Maria P. Velez [and 3 others]
Plastics recycling and women's reproductive health / Aimée L. Ward and Annie Sasco
Xenoestrogens and breast cancer : chemical risk, exposure, and corporate power / Sarah Young and Dugald Seely
Plastics industry workers and breast cancer risk : are we heeding the warnings? / Margaret M. Keith [and 5 others]
Power and control at the production-consumption nexus : migrant women farmworkers and pesticides / Adrian A. Smith and Alexandra Stiver
Conclusion : Thinking about thresholds, literal and figurative / Dayna Nadine Scott

Control Number:

1356836

Other Authors:

Scott, Dayna Nadine, 1974- author, editor

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