SPECIAL ISSUE ON HEALTH IN FAMILIES,
HEALTHY FAMILIES, GENDERED
EXPLORATIONS II
Aysan Sev’er & Lorne Tepperman (Special Issue Editors)

Shahid Alvi (Ph.D.) is a Professor in the Faculty of Criminology, Justice & Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. His research interests include violence against women, immigrant women, poverty and crime, and youth crime.

Hugh Armstrong (Ph.D.) is a Professor in the School of Social Work and in the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa. He has published articles on privatization in health care, on the reorganization of work, and on state workers. With Pat Armstrong, he has written widely on women and work and on health care. Among their books are Theorizing Women’s Work (1990), The Double Ghetto: Canadian Women and Their Segregated Work (Third Edition, 1994), Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care (Second Edition, 2003), and Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience (1998). They have also co-authored several articles and reports, including a paper on health human resources for the recent Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, and “Thinking It Through: Women, Work and Caring in the New Millennium,” a concept paper for “A Healthy Balance,” a CIHR-funded research project on unpaid care work.

Pat Armstrong (Ph.D.) is co author or editor of various books on health care, including Caring For/Caring About, Exposing Privatization: Women & Health Reform in Canada. Unhealthy Times, Heal Thyself: Managing Health Care Reform; Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care; Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn From Canada; Medical Alert: New Work Organizations In Health Care: Vital Signs: Nursing in Transition; and Take Care: Warning Signals for Canada's Health System. She has also published on a wide variety of issues related to women's work and to social policy. On the basis of this work, she has been called as an expert witness in more than a dozen cases linked to women’s work, pay equity and women’s rights. She has served as Chair of the Department of Sociology at York University and Director of the school of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. Currently, she is a partner in the National Network on Environments and Women’s Health and chairs a working group on health reform that crosses the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health. She holds a CHSRF/CHIR Chair in Health Services and Nursing Research.

Kimberly A. Clow (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Criminology, Justice Studies & Policy at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests include gender issues, stereotypes, prejudice/discrimination and wrongful conviction.

Walter S. DeKeseredy (Ph.D.) is a Professor in the faculty of
Criminology, Justice & Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. His research interests include woman abuse, crime in public housing and criminological theory.

Tessa LeRoux (D.Litt et Phil.) is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Donahue Institute for Values & Public Life at Lasell College, Massachusetts. Her main scholarly work is in the field of gender and family studies and she has published on the topics of gender role socialization, teenage pregnancy and single parenthood, women, domestic work and migration, genetics, support groups and family ideology. She is particularly interested in immigration and family separation from a gender perspective.

Donna Rochon (Ph.D.) After completing a Master’s degree in Anthropology at the University of Houston, she received her doctorate from the University of Texas School of Public Health. She has worked as an HIV educator and now edits an AIDS treatment newsletter. Her current work as a qualitative researcher in Family Medicine focuses on participatory research and decision-making relating to diabetes, cancer and HIV adherence.

Aysan Sev’er (Ph.D.) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her current research focuses on extreme forms of violence against women in India and in south-eastern Turkey. She is the founding editor of the Women’s Health & Urban Life Journal and the recipient of the Canadian Person’s Day Award (1998) and the Canadian Women’s Studies Book Award (2004). Currently, she is serving as the Special Advisor to the Principal on Equity Issues at University of Toronto at Scarborough and writing on honour-killings and dowry deaths. She recently organized an international conference on Health, Family & Gender (ISA-RC06-2007).

The Women's Health & Urban Life: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal is generously funded by the Wellesley Central Health Corporation and is permanently housed at the Sociology Department, University of Toronto. The founder and the first general editor is Aysan Sev'er, University of Toronto.