This book demonstrates that nurses have made an important contribution to the advancement and expansion of women's health knowledge. Selecting the health issues of most importance to women, the editors have assembled leading nurse researchers to review, summarize, and critique nursing research within each area. A general overview of the field is also provided. Contributors include Angela McBride, Linda Andrist, Janice Humphreys, and Jacquelyn Campbell. Also contributing are Kathleen MacPherson and Nancy King Reame, nurse members of the original Boston Women's Health Collective, which authors OUR BODIES, OURSELVES.

Part I: Introduction

1. What We Know and How We Know It: Contributions from Nursing to Women'sHealth Research and Scholarship, Diana Taylor and Nancy Woods
2. Conceptual Models for Women's Health Research: Reclaiming Menopause as anExemplar of Nursing's Contributions to Feminist Scholarship, Linda C. Andrist and Kathleen MacPherson

Part II: Research on Women's Social Roles and Health

3. Women as Mothers and Grandmothers, Angela Barron McBride and Cheryl Prohaska Shore
4. Women and Employment: A Decade Review,Marcia Gruis Killien
5. Interventions for Women as Family Caregivers, Margaret J. Bull

Part III: Research on Diversity and Women's Health

6. Lesbian Health and Health Care, Linda A. Berhard
7. Immigrant Women and Their Health, Karen Aroian

Part IV: Research on Women's Health and Illness Issues

8. Women & Stress, Cheryl Cahill
9. Sleep and Fatigue, Kathryn A. Lee
10. Intimate Partner Violence against Women, Janice Humphreys, Barbara Parker, and Jacquelyn Campbell
11. Health Decisions and Decision Support for Women, Marilyn L. Rothert and Annette M. O'Connor
12. Female Troubles: An Analysis of Menstrual Cycle Research in the NINR Portfolio as a Model for Science Development in Women's Health, Nancy King Reame