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Political Science Environmental Policy

Our Chemical Selves

Gender, Toxics, and Environmental Health

edited by Dayna Nadine Scott

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2015
Category
Environmental Policy, Environmental, Toxicology
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774828369
    Publish Date
    Feb 2015
    List Price
    $39.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774828338
    Publish Date
    Feb 2015
    List Price
    $95.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774828345
    Publish Date
    Jul 2015
    List Price
    $39.95

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Everyday exposures to common chemicals found in homes, schools, and workplaces are having devastating long-term and inter-generational consequences on human health. At the same time, the risks associated with these exposures (and the burdens of managing them) rest disproportionately on the shoulders of women. Written by leading researchers in science, law, and public policy, the chapters in Our Chemical Selves critically examine the system that manufactures the chemicals as well as the social, political, and gender relations that enable harmful chemicals to continue being produced and consumed. This book demonstrates the urgent need to revise existing approaches to the regulation of toxic substances in Canada.

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Contributor Notes

Dayna Nadine Scott teaches administrative law, environmental law and justice, and risk regulation. Her research has focused on environmental justice activism, the regulation of pollution and toxic substances, gender and environmental heath, and feminist theory of the body. She is the director of the National Network on Environments and Women's Health.

Contributors: Bita Amani, Matthias Beck, James T. Brophy, Samantha Cukier, Robert Dematteo, Troy Dixon, Warren G. Foster, William Fraser, Michael Gilbertson, Laila Zahra Harris, Margaret M. Keith, Sarah Lewis, Norah MacKendrick, Josephine Mandamin, Patricia Monnier, Jean Morrision, Jyoti Phartiyal, M. Ann Phillips, Lauren Rakowski, Nancy Ross, Annie Sasco, Dugald Seeley, Adrian A. Smith, Tasha Smith, Alexandra Stiver, Maria P. Velez, Aimée L. Ward, Andrew E. Watterson, Sarah Young.