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Environmental endocrine disruptors have been at the heart of
discussions about chemicals and their effects on fertility, but the
focus has been on organic compounds and the role of metals has been
largely overlooked - until now. Taking an organ-system-based
approach, Metals, Fertility, and Reproductive Toxicity examines the
effects of metals found in the everyday environment on fertility
rates in humans and animal populations. This volume summarizes and
evaluates the literature in the area of metal effects on fertility
and reproduction in humans, laboratory animals, and wildlife.
International experts have contributed chapters that explore how
the ovary, testes, uterine system, and neuroendocrine system, among
others, respond to metal exposure. Reviewing both current knowledge
and cutting edge data, the chapters focus on either a particular
metal or a particular population. A massive amount of data on this
subject has been generated, summarized, and reviewed over the
years. While there are many books available on metals toxicity and
on reproductive toxicity, no current book explores both in the same
volume. Culling information from throughout the literature, Metals,
Fertility, and Reproductive Toxicity supplies an in-depth look at
the role of metals in endocrine disruption and the spectrum of
mechanisms involving metals that can influence reproduction.
This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who
founded women's studies in Canada and Quebec explores feminist
activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays
document the emergence of women's studies as a new way of
understanding women, men, and society, and they challenge some
current preconceptions about "second wave" feminist academics.
The contributors explain how the intellectual and political
revolution begun by small groups of academics--often young,
untenured women--at universities across Canada contributed to
social progress and profoundly affected the way we think, speak,
behave, understand equality, and conceptualize the academy and an
academic career. A contextualizing essay documents the social,
economic, political, and educational climate of the time, and a
concluding chapter highlights the essays' recurring themes and
assesses the intellectual and social transformation that their
authors helped set in motion.
The essays document the appalling sexism and racism some women
encounter in seeking admission to doctoral studies, in hiring, in
pay, and in establishing the legitimacy of feminist perspectives in
the academy. They reveal sources of resistance, too, not only from
colleagues and administrators but from family members and from
within the self. In so doing they provide inspiring examples of
sisterly support and lifelong friendship.
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