Publisher's Synopsis
After the closing of Healthsharing magazine, Women's Press selected an editorial collective to put together a collection of articles from the magazine that reflects the central feminist health issues as seen by the magazine over the past fifteen years."We refer to health in its broadest sense, to include a state of physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being. Thus, political, social and environmental conditions are all health issues. It is not enough to quit smoking, run five miles a day and eat only organic food if our environment remains polluted, and our living and working conditions oppressive. Discussion of individual involvement and responsibility can be an empty exercise for a person who is struggling just to feed her children."That was the definition that was to guide Healthsharing: A Canadian Women's Health Quarterly throughout its fifteen-year history. On Women Healthsharing offers us a chance to reflect on the accomplishments of so many years of thinking debating and mobilizing. However, it also offers us the challenge of what remains to be done. The sad part is that we will have to go the next distance without Healthsharing.
