Includes bibliography and index.

Contents: Perspectives: Women's health: Where nursing and feminism converge -- The Contemporary woman and the health care system -- The contemporary woman and the nurse: A partnership -- Nursing and women's health: The current health status of women -- Health assessment -- Physical health concerns -- Stress response and coping patterns -- Psycho physical concerns: Psycho logic concerns -- Substance abuse -- Abuse and battering -- Rape -- Physical disability -- Lifestyle concerns: Adolescence -- Lesbianism -- Motherhood Single motherhood -- Combining employment with motherhood -- Separation and divorce -- Widowhood -- Aging -- Unwanted pregnancy -- Infertility -- Genetic counseling -- Pregnancy: Special concerns -- Breast problems -- Gynecologic and urinary problems -- Reproductive surgery.