This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.

FEMINISTS REVISIONING: THEORETICAL SPECULATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS Adele E. Clarke and Virginia Olesen -- Revising, Diffracting, Acting Donna J. Haraway -- The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order Emily Martin -- The Woman in the Flexible Body DESTABILIZING METHODS Rayna Rapp -- One New Reproductive Technology, Multiple Sites: How Feminist Methodology Bleeds into Everyday Life Patti Lather -- Naked Methodology: Researching Lives of Women with HIV/AIDS Denise Segura and Adela de la Torres -- La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina Health Marjorie L. DeVault -- Whose Science of Food and Health? Narratives of Profession and Activism from Public Health Nutrition (RE)CONSTRUCTING EXPERIENCE: SEARCHING THE SELF Sharon Traweek -- Warning Signs: Acting on Images Ruth Behar -- The Girl in the Cast Fran5~oise Verges -- (Post)Colonial Psychiatry: The Making of a Colonized Pathology CHALLENGING NEW WORLD REPRODUCTIVE ORDERS Anne Balsamo -- Public Pregnancies and Cultural Narratives of Surveillance Valerie Hartouni -- A Study in Reproductive Technologies Patricia Hill Collins -- Will the Real Mother Please Stand Up?: The Logic of Eugenics and American National Family Planning Beth Richie -- The Social Construction of the Immoral Black Mother: Social Policy, Community Policing, and Effects on Youth Violence REVISED AND DISRUPTIVE AGENDAS FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH Sheryl Burt Ruzek -- Rethinking Feminist Ideologies and Actions: Thoughts on the Past and Future of Health Reform Jennifer Terry -- Agendas for Lesbian Health: Countering the Ills of Homophobia Nancy Fugate Woods -- Midlife Women's Health: Conflicting Perspectives of Health Care Providers and Midlife Women and Consequences for Health Virginia Olesen and Adele E. Clarke -- Resisting Closure, Embracing Uncertainties, Creating Agendas

Adele E. Clarke is Associate Professor of Sociology and History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is author of DiscipliningReproduction: American Life Scientists and the "Problemof Sex" (1998) and co-edited Women's Health: Complexitiesand Differences (1997) with Virginia L. Olesen and Sheryl Ruzek. Virginia L. Olesen is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco.