Health and Social Issues of Native American Women

Jennie R. Joe, PhD, MPH, MA, is professor emeritus in family and community medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson.Francine C. Gachupin, PhD, MPHH, CIP, is operations manager of the Human Research Protection Office at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

• AcknowledgementsForewordJudith Salmon Kaur1: IntroductionJennie R. Joe and Francine C. Gachupin2: Changing and Diverse Roles of Women in American Indian CultureTeresa D. LaFromboise and Bayley J. Marquez3: Alaska Native Women: Forty Years of Sociocultural changeRosita Kaahani Worl4: The Impact of Federal Government Policies on American Indian and Alaska Native Health CareTerry M. Maresca5: Health Disparity: The Morbidity and Mortality PictureLinda Burhanisstipanov6: Becoming an Elder: Native Women AgingEmily A. Haozous and R. Turner Goins7: Addressing Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Native American CommunitiesValarie Blue Bird Jernigan8: The Struggle with the Devastation of DiabetesJennie R. Joe9: Domestic Violence in American Indian Communities: Background, Culture, and Legal IssuesMary Rogers and Jennifer Giroux10. Native American Women: HIV/AIDS Risk and ActivismIrene S. Vernon11. Differences in Cancer Patterns in American Indian/Alaska Native Women Across the U.S.Teshia G. Arambula Solomon and Carol Goldtooth-Begay12. Three Native Sister: Being Young and the Need to Fit-inNina S. Wampler and Lorenda Belone13. Protections to Consider when Engaging American Indians/Alaska Natives in Human Subject ResearchFrancine C. Guchapin14. Contributors' Biographies

Anchored firmly with numerous and weighty references, this text fills a gap in both the feminist literature relatingto native women and the scholarly literature concerning the health of Native peoples, especially women.