University of Toronto Scarborough

Women’s Health & Urban Life:
An International and Interdisciplinary Journal (1)
(Vol. I, Issue 2, December 2002)

Contents:
General Editor’s Introduction (link not working)
Aysan Sev’er (University of Toronto)

Article:

Poor Health, Lone-Mothers and Welfare Reform: Competing Visions of Employability (download full text pdf file) (link not working) Maureen Baker (Auckland University, New Zealand)

Theorizing Public Housing Woman Abuse as a Function of Economic Exclusion and Male Peer Support (download full text pdf file)(link not working) Walter S. DeKeseredy (Ohio University) & Martin D. Schwartz (Ohio University)

"Private" Crime in Public Housing: Violent Victimization, Fear of Crime and Social Isolation Among Women Public Housing Residents (download full text pdf file)(link not working) Claire M. Renetti (St. Joseph’s University) & Shana L. Maier (University of Delaware)

Sexual Risk Behaviours, HIV Knowledge and Attitudes Among Women Heroin Users in China: Implications for HIV Prevention (download full text pdf file)(link not working) Quanyi Wang (Chinese Academy of Mediacal Sciences & Pekin Union Medical College & Gee Lin (West Virginia University)

The Authors of the Current Issue:

Maureen Baker (Ph.D.) Is Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She received her doctorate in Sociology from the University of Alberta in 1975. Since then, she has taught in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. From 1984 to 1990, she worked as a senior researcher for Canada’s Parliament, specializing in policy issues relating to families, women and children. Professor Baker is the author or editor of twelve books and over 50 articles on family trends, cross-national family policies, women and work and comparative restructuring. She has lived in New Zealand since 1998.

Walter S. DeKeseredy (Ph.D.) Is Professor of Sociology at Ohio University. He has written dozens of articles and several books on woman abuse. His current research focuses on sexual assault during and after separation/divorce. Dr. DeKeseredy is also Chair of the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Critical Criminology.

Ge Lin (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of Geography at the Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University. He received his Ph.D. degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His current research interests are Medical Geography, Demography and GIS.

Shana L. Maier (M.S.) is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE. Her research interests lie in the areas of the sociology of gender and social deviance.

Claire M. Renzetti (Ph.D.) is Professor and Chair of Sociology, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA. She is editor of the international, interdisciplinary journal Violence Against Women, co-editor (with Jeffrey L. Edleson) of the Sage Violence Against Women book series, and editor of the Gender, Crime and Law book series for Northeastern University Press. She has authored or edited thirteen books and numerous book chapters and scholarly articles. Her research focuses primarily on violence against marginalized women.

Martin D. Schwartz (Ph.D.) is Professor of Sociology at Ohio University. He has scores of articles on woman abuse. He is also the co-author of Sexual Assault on the College Campus: The Role of Male Peer Support and Woman Abuse on Campus: Results from the Canadian National Survey (with Walter S. DeKeseredy).

Aysan Sev’er (Ph.D.) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She has numerous books and papers on violence against women. Her most current book is about women who have left their abusive partners (Fleeing the House of Horrors, University of Toronto Press, 2002). She is currently conducting an SSHRC funded research on violence against women in southeastern Turkey and serving as the general editor of Women’s Health and Urban Life journal.

Quanyi Wang (MD, MPH) is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. He received his medical education at Shandong University in China. He was Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography at West Virginia University in the United States (2000 to 2002). His research topic is Social Epidemiology of HIV/STD.

1. 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.