Wings of Gauze : Women of Color and the Experience of Health and Illness Book

	Foreword	9
	Preface	11
	Introduction	13
1	Coping and Caretaking: Rethinking the Boundaries of Physical/Psychological Health
	My Guardian Spirits	23
	Cracking the Skull, Mending the Soul: Sonia Sanchez's Role as Teacher/Healer/Poet	26
	Madame Neau: The Practice of Ethno-Psychiatry in Rural Louisiana	41
	Perceptions of Discrimination, Psycho-social Functioning and Physical Symptoms of African-American Women	53
	Older Women of the Project: The Socio-medical Consequences of Urban Change	68
	Cognitive Coping Strategies among the Mothers of Children with Sickle Cell Disease	79
2	Traditional Medicine and Holistic Concepts of Health: Questions of Culture and Politics
	Health Care Decision Making among Cambodian Refugee Women	93
	Mind and Body: Revising Approaches to the Analysis of Curanderismo	109
	Images of Health: Perceptions of Urban American-Indian Women	122
	Visiting the Women and Neighborhood of My Past	130
3	Historical Perspectives and the Provision of Care: Questions of Empowerment and Social Control
	Mary Petersen: A Life of Healing and Renewal	148
	Homesickness, Illness and Death: Native-American Girls in Government Boarding Schools	169
	Managing on Their Own: Ailing Black Women in Philadelphia and Charleston, 1870 to 1918	180
	Empowered Caretakers: A Historical Perspective on the Roles of Granny Midwives in Rural Alabama	191
	Childbirth, Lay Institution Building, and Health Policy: The Traditional Childbearing Group, Inc., of Boston in a Historical Context	202
	Nutrition, Breastfeeding, and Ethnicity: Understanding Maternal and Child Health Beliefs among New-Wave Immigrants	226
4	Breast Cancer: Images of Self
	Breast Cancer, Breast Self-Examination, and African-American Women	244
	Resignation and Resourcefulness: Older Hispanic Women's Responses to Breast Cancer	257
	Cancer in the Family	273
5	Community Action and Public Health Policy
	Battered Women of Color in Public Health Care Systems: Racism, Sexism, and Violence	288
	Barriers to Birth Control Use among Hispanic Teenagers: Providers' Perspectives	300
	Living with the Threat of AIDS: Perceptions of Health and Risk among African-American Women IV Drug Users	312
	Poverty, Drug Use, and AIDS: Converging Issues in the Life Stories of Women in Harlem	328
	Latinas and HIV Infection/AIDS: Reflections on Impacts, Dilemmas, and Struggles	340
	The Use of Women's Culture in AIDS Outreach	353
	Notes on Contributors	364
	About the Editors	372
	Some Further Sources	374
	Index	383