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This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of women's health through a feminist lens, challenging the status quo for both clinicians and medical providers, highlighting the critical need for a more inclusive and empathetic approach to clinical practice and mental health research. Addressing a spectrum of health concerns--from prevalent issues such as heart disease, cancer, and stroke as leading causes of death for women to conditions uniquely affecting biological women such as pregnancy, menopause, miscarriage, abortion, polycystic ovary syndrome, and endometriosis--the chapters in this volume examine how these challenges intersect with gendered experiences. It critically assesses the gaps in current healthcare practices, including the often-overlooked impact on couples and families, and exposes the disparities faced by transgender women, non-binary, and gender non-conforming individuals. By incorporating the latest literature and research on reproductive and sexual health, this volume challenges traditional paradigms and gives voice to experiences that are often silenced. This book will serve as a crucial resource for students, clinicians, researchers, and advocates committed to advancing women's health through a more equitable and intersectional framework.

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Kristina S. Brown is professor and the chair of the Couple and Family Therapy at Adler University. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy and editor of the new AAMFT Systemic Ethics Textbook. Suzanne T. Fortin has a deep love of magic, mystery, time-travel, and snark, and specializes in narrating Sassy Redheads-particularly in the urban fantasy, thriller, and romance genres. She grew up in the woods of New Hampshire in a large French-Canadian family that planned vacations like a war campaign but also tended to get slightly lost while casually day hiking. That sense of ""Eh, we'll give it a go and see what happens,"" prepped her to move across the country on Amtrak with a duffel bag, journal, and Walkman to work in Glacier National Park as an actor. She quickly fell in love with Montana and the folks she met there. Unlikely Adventure ensued. Suzanne received her MFA in acting from the University of Montana and has performed as a touring and summer stock actor across the Northwest US. She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and PANA. When not recording, she can be found drinking large mugs of tea, wrangling a pile of unruly teenage cats, stage-managing equally unruly Dance Majors at Scripps College, reading tarot cards, and warding off stray golf balls on her porch in Los Angeles. She misses the mountains but not needing snow tires.

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