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Title Gateways to improving lesbian health and health care : opening doors / Christy M. Ponticelli, editor
Published New York : Haworth Press, [1998]
©1998

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 MELB  362.1086 Pon/Gti  AVAILABLE
Description 114 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Creating Awareness and Dialogue: Moving Toward Better Lesbian Health and Health Care / Christy M. Ponticelli -- Lesbians Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse: Pivotal Experiences Related to Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Race / Joanne M. Hall -- Domestic Violence in Lesbian Relationships: Findings of the Lesbian Relationships Research Project / Teresa Scherzer -- Lesbian Pass/ages: Invisible Lives and Issues of Community / Barbara Isaac and Barbara M. Herringer -- Rural Lesbians' Strategies for Coming Out to Health Care Professionals / Kathleen A. Tiemann, Sally A. Kennedy and Myrna P. Haga -- The Experiences of Lesbians of Color in Health Care Encounters: Narrative Insights for Improving Access and Quality / Patricia E. Stevens -- Room for Improvement: Communication Between Lesbians and Primary Care Providers / Jocelyn C. White and Valerie T. Dull
Summary An interdisciplinary book that creates a space for traditionally oppressed voices to speak, Gateways to Improving Lesbian Health and Health Care explores the health care experiences of lesbians of different ages, colors, and places. By presenting the particular difficulties lesbians have in accessing excellent, or even adequate, health care, this book is meant to convince lesbians who have been isolated that their health issues and interactions with health care professionals are not just personal troubles, but larger public issues. It is also designed to show health care providers how they can sensitize their care and meet the needs of lesbian clients through the provision of safe and respectful environments
Notes Co-published simultaneously as Journal of lesbian studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 1998
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Lesbians -- Health and hygiene.
Lesbians -- Medical care.
Author Ponticelli, Christy M.
LC no. 97030299
ISBN 0789003503 (acid-free paper)
1560231033 (acid-free paper)
OTHER TI Journal of lesbian studies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006180513