Double exposure : women's health hazards on the job and at home / edited by Wendy Chavkin, M. D. ; preface by Eula Bingham.

New York : Monthly Review Press, [1984]

xi, 276 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm.

This book was donated as part of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS) archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/BSR https://wellcomecollection.org/works/k2nhy9hf

Copy 1. Donor: British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS).

Introduction / Wendy Chavkin -- Part 1. Women at work -- The clean, light image of the electronics industry : miracle or mirage / Robin Baker and Sharon Woodrow -- The risks of healing : the hazards of the nursing profession / Linda Coleman and Cindy Dickinson -- I like my job, its's the work that makes me sick -- The health hazards of office work / Jane Fleishman -- The particular problems of video display terminals / Mary Sue Henifin -- Closed office-building syndrome / Wendy Chavkin -- Following the harvest : the health hazards of migrant and seasonal farmworking women / Sonia Jasso and Maria Mazorra -- Sexual harassment and women's health / Peggy Crull -- Minority women, work, and health / Leith Mullings -- Protection for women : trade unions and labor laws / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Part 2. Damned if you do, damned if you don't : work and reproduction -- Mother, father, worker : men and women and the reproduction risks of work / Maureen Hatch -- Keeping women in their place : exclusionary policies and reproduction / Judith A. Scott -- Walking a tightrope : pregnancy, parenting, and work / Wendy Chavkin -- Part 3. On the homefront : women at home and in the community -- The home is the workplace : hazards, stress, and pollutants in the household / Harriet G. Rosenberg -- From grassroots activism to political power : women organizing against environmental hazards / Nicholas Freudenberg and Ellen Zaltzberg.

Includes bibliographical references.