Here is a timely collection of essays that explore the experiences of women as providers and recipients of health care in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Combining feminist scholarship with a call to activism, the authors examine women's health and illness as products of their social location within the division of labor and the normative structures of the three societies. In contrast to the deductive approach of positivism, the authors use women's subjective experiences as the starting point for the collection and analysis of data. This method, which some social scientists call a "lived-experience" perspective, has become an . . .