Surviving in the hour of darkness : the health and wellness of women of colour and indigenous women / edited by G. Sophie Harding.

Health and wellness of women of colour and indigenous women

Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, [2005]

xxii, 314 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

Perspectives on health in the diaspora: understanding the challenges -- Nurses in resistance / Karen Flynn -- African Canadian women resisting oppression: embodying emancipated consciousness through holistic self-healing approaches to mental health / Ingrid Waldron -- Think globally act appropriately: a community health centres response to violence against women in the context of black women and women of color / Notisha Massaquoi -- Black women's health in Nova Scotia: one woman's story / Dr. Wanda Thomas Bernard -- Misogyny and mental illness / Carla R. Ribeiro -- All colours of the rainbow: recently-arrived immigrant women of colour and HIV/AIDS in Canada / Farah M. Shroff -- A model of women services in the HIV epidemic / Talata Reeves -- Her story: living with illness -- Healing warrior marks: battling stress, taking care / Crystal E. Wilkinson -- A better woman because of it / CiajDiann M. Harris -- Endo poems / Rosamond S. King -- Help, I've fallen, and no one has even noticed / Judith K. Witherow -- Secrets, generations / Naomi North -- Fairy tales and bedtime stories / Layla Hassan -- Bone doctor, token of chastity / Heather MacLeod -- Four forces, windows, freeing the inner child / Valerie Wood -- Wolf cry, erect in green pride / Lorraine Thomas -- Anjali, untitled / Bishakha Chowdhury -- The struggle of one and many, sad paper / Roxane Tracey -- My aunt pasty / Troy Hunter -- Neelum / Sima Qadeer -- Promised land / Randa Hammadieh -- Hands the care / Neeta Singh -- Enter the lion's den: a journey to the centre of my uterus -- one black woman's story of fibroids / Wendy Vincent -- Women's health in scary hands / Kristine Maitland -- I died in my dreams / Ingrid Rivera -- Oh my aching feet / Nora Burrell -- ethnic ph.d, thin line / Beldan Sezen -- I crawl into earth / Vera M. Wabegijig -- Untitled / Marisa Maharaj -- Spake Ginty spake, by Euston Station she sat down / Anakana Schofield -- My people paid / Shirley Brozzo -- The circle of life / Pitche Wasayananung -- My room of silence, mother's prayer, this body of mine / Rolanda C. Kane -- Gitane's voice / Gitane Williams -- Ode to Marie, learning with the women: my travels in first nations country / Dr. Ana Bodnar -- When the body attacks: a black woman's fight against lupus / Charmaine Crawford -- Talking about our health: in our hardship we have to learn to be strong: women's health in women's hands rooftop gardeners / Linda Cornwell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.