Author Description

Pubertal development and menarche: physiological and developmental aspects / Margaret L. Stubbs -- Menarche: psychosocial and cultural aspects / Maria Luisa Marván & Verónica Alcalá-Herrera -- The menstrual cycle: its biology in the context of silent ovulatory disturbances / Jerilynn C. Prior -- The menstrual cycle: attitudes and behavioral concomitants / Joan C. Chrisler & Jenifer A. Gorman -- Premenstrual mood disorders: a feminist psychosocial perspective / Jane Ussher & Janette Perz -- Menopause and midlife: psychosocial perspectives and interventions / Myra S. Hunter -- Menstrual cycle-related disorders: polycystic ovary syndrome, dysmenorrhea, and menstrual migraine / Nancy Fugate Woods & Nancy J. Kenney -- Women's experience of endometriosis / Elaine Denny & Annalise Weckesser -- Breast and reproductive cancers: genomics and risks / Cheryl B. Travis -- Psychosocial aspects of women's sexual and reproductive well-being after cancer / Chloe Parton -- Contraception across the reproductive life-course / Deborah Bateson -- Abortion in context / Jeanne Marecek -- Women's experiences of infertility / Jessica Barnack-Tavlaris -- Fertility and cancer / Michelle Peate, Lesley Stafford, & Yasmin Jayasinghe -- Assisted conception: fertility preservation, surrogate motherhood, gamete/Embryo Donation, and in Vitro Fertilization / Olga B. A. van den Akker -- "Adolescent pregnancy": social problem, public health concern, or neither? / Catriona Ida Macleod & Tracey Feltham-King -- Smoking and pregnancy: risk factors, women's experiences, and interventions / Michael Ussher, Felix Naughton, Cailtlin Notley, & Linda Bauld -- Medical aspects of pregnancy / Annemarie Hennessy -- Miscarriage / Heather Rowe & Alexandra Hawkey -- The ultimate in women's labor: stillbirth and grieving? Joanne Cacciatore & Jill Wieber Lens -- Psychological aspects of pregnancy and pregnancy health care in their social and cultural contexts / Jane R.W. Fisher & Karin Hammarberg -- Childbirth