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19
. Ibid., p. 109.

20
. Tjaden and Thoennes, “Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women,” November 2000, ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/183781.pdf.

21
. Ibid.

22
. L. Peterson, “The Not-Rape Epidemic,” in
Yes Means Yes!
ed. Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (Berkeley: Seal Press, 2009), p. 209.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Cara Kulwicki, “Real Sex Education,” in
Yes Means Yes!
ed. Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (Berkeley: Seal Press, 2009), p. 310.

25
. R. Sampson, “The Problem of Acquaintance Rape of College Students,” U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, Problem-Specific Guide Series #17, 2003.

26
. Ibid., citing B. Fisher, F. T. Cullen, and M. Turner,
The Sexual Victimization of College Women
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 2000).

27
. Ibid.

28
. Jodi Gold and Susan Villari, eds.,
Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Activism and Equality
(Lanham, MD: Rowan G. Littlefield Publishing, 2000).

29
. Laura Sessions Stepp, “A New Kind of Date Rape,”
Cos-
mopolitan
, September 2007, cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/tips-tips-moves/new-kind-of-date-rape.

30
. Sexual Assault Resources Service and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Program, sane-sart.com.

31
. D. Dwyer and L. Jones, “Rape Kit Testing Backlog Thwarts Justice for Victims: Lawmakers Seek Rules and Funds for Faster DNA Testing After Sexual Assault,” 2010, abcnews.go.com/print?id=10701295.

32
. Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, eds.,
Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape
(Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008), p. 107.

33
. Center for Research on Women with Disabilities at Baylor College of Medicine, at womenshealth.gov/violence.

34
. Margaret A. Nosek, Center for Research on Women with Disabilities, Baylor College of Medicine, bcm.edu/crowd/index.cfm?pmid=1410.

35
. Mary Ann Dutton and Lisa A. Goodman, “Coercion in Intimate Partner Violence: Toward a New Conceptualization,”
Sex Roles
52, nos. 11/12 (June 2005): 746.

36
. Leslye Orloff, ed., “Empowering Survivors: Legal Rights of Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault for Advocates Working with Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault” (Washington, DC: Legal Momentum, 2010); Kathleen Sullivan and Leslye Orloff, eds., “Breaking Barriers: A Complete Guide to Legal Rights and Resources for Battered Immigrants” (Washington, DC: Legal Momentum, 2004).

37
. Patricia Tjaden and Nancy Thoennes,
Stalking in America: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey
(Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, 1998), NCJ 169592. U.S.

38
. The Stalking Resource Center and U.S. Department of Justice, “National Stalking Awareness Month 2011 Webinar,” 2010, ncvc.org/src/main.aspx?dbID=DB_statistics195.

39
. Bureau of Justice Statistics, “Stalking Victimization in the United States,” 2009, bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/svus.pdf.

40
. National Institute of Justice, “Stalking.” ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/topics/crime/stalking/welcome.htm#tja.

41
. M. P. Brewster,
Exploration of the Experiences and Needs of Former Intimate Stalking Victims, 1998.
Final report submitted to the National Institute of Justice. Grant No. 95-WT-NX-0002, NCJ 175475.

42
. N. Miller,
Stalking Laws and Implementation Practices: A National Review for Policy Makers and Practitioners
, 2001. Final report submitted to the National Institute of Justice. Grant No. 97-WT-VX-0007, NCJ 197066.

43
. Network for Surviving Stalking, University of Leicester, nss.org.uk.

44
. U.S. Department of Justice,
The National Crime Victimization Survey
, Washington, DC: National Criminal Justice Reference Service (2004).

45
. Nan Stein, “No Laughing Matter: Sexual Harassment in K–12 Schools,” in
Transforming a Rape Culture
, ed. Emile Buchwald, Pamela Fletcher, and Martha Ross (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1993; rev. ed. 2004).

46
. N. Heyzer, “Address to the Forty-Third Session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women,” March 1, 1999.

CHAPTER 25: ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

1
. Alison Ojanen-Goldsmith, “Young Feminists—Poison Earth, Poison Woman: Making the Connection,” Women's Health Activist Newsletter, July/August 2009

2
. President's Cancer Panel, “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now,” 2010, deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/annualReports/pcp08-09rpt/PCP_Report_08-09_508.pdf.

3
. Ibid.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid.

6
. “Natural Resources Defense Council, Healthy Milk, Healthy Baby: Chemical Pollution and Mother's Milk,” nrdc.org/breastmilk/chems.asp.

7
. M. Nathaniel Mead, “Contaminants in Human Milk: Weighing the Risks Against the Benefits of Breastfeeding,”
Environmental Health Perspectives
116 (2008): A426–A34.

8
. S. Ip et al., “Breastfeeding and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Developed Countries,”
Evidence Report/Technology Assessment
153 (April 2007): 1–186.

9
. President's Cancer Panel, “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now” (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010), deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/annualReports/pcp08-09rpt/PCP_Report_08-09_508.pdf.

10
. “Precautionary Principle,” Science and Environmental Health Network, sehnorg/winghtm.

11
. Personal correspondence with author, January 2010.

12
. Personal interview with author, January 2010.

13
. United States Environmental Protection Agency, “An Introduction to Indoor Air Quality: Lead,” epa.gov/iaq/lead.html.

14
. Toxipedia, “Biological Properties of Lead,” toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Biological+Properties+of+Lead.

15
. New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, “Lead Poisoning: Prevention, Identification, and Management,”
City Health Information
29, no. 5 (September 2010): 41–48, nyc.gov/html/doh/down loads/pdf/chi/chi29-5.pdf.

16
. Michael Hawthorne, “High Levels of Toxic Lead Found in Air Outside Chicago School,”
Chicago Tribune
, April 1, 2011.

17
. Janet Gray,
State of the Evidence: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment
, 6th ed. (San Francisco: Breast Cancer Fund, 2010).

18
. Coming Clean, “What Is Body Burden?” Chemical Body Burden website, chemicalbodyburden.org/whatisbb.htm.

19
. Environmental Protection Agency, “2000–2001 Pesticide Market Estimate: Usage,” epa.gov/pesticides/pestsales/01pestsales/usage2001.htm.

20
. Environmental Protection Agency, “An Introduction to Indoor Air Quality,” epa.gov/iaq/pesticid.html.

21
. L. M. Frazier, “Reproductive Disorders Associated with Pesticide Exposure,”
Journal of Agromedicine
12, no. 1 (2007): 27–37.

22
. Theo Colborn, “A Case for Revisiting the Safety of Pesticides: A Closer Look at Neurodevelopment,”
Environmental Health Perspectives
114 (2006): 10–17, doi:10.1289/ehp.7940, ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetch Article.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2 Fehp.7940.

23
. Graeme Stemp-Morlock, “Reproductive Health: Pesticides and Anencephaly,”
Environmental Health Perspectives
115, no. 2 (February 2007), ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1817703/.

24
. United Nations Environment Programme, “Persistant Organic Pollutants,” chem.unep.ch/pops.

25
. Francine Stephens, “Persistent Organic Pollutants: Chemicals That Won't Go Away and Hurt Us All,”
Healthy Child, Healthy World
, June 21 2007, healthy child.org/blog/comments/persistent_organic_pollutants_chemicals_that_wont_go_away_and_hurt_us_all/.

26
. Eric M. Roberts et al., “Maternal Residence Near Agriculture Pesticide Applications and Autism Spectrum Disorders Among Children in the California Central Valley,”
Environmental Health Perspectives
115, no. 10 (October 2007).

27
. Pesticide Action Network, “Children,” panna.org/your-health/children.

28
. United States Environmental Projection Agency, “Persistent Organic Pollutants: A Global Issue, a Global Response,” epa.gov/international/toxics/pop.html.

29
. The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, “Endocrine Disruption Introduction,” endocrinedisruption.com/endocrine.introduction.overview.php.

30
. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Third National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals” (Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005), ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2 F10.1289%2Fehp.11748#b28-ehp-117-1359.

31
. G. L. Daly and F. Wania, “Organic Contaminants in Mountains,”
Environmental Science and Technology
39, no. 2 (January 2005): 385–98.

32
. Environment, Health and Safety Online, “Endocrine Disruptors and Human Health,” July 31 2010, ehso.com/ehshome/endocrinedisrupters.htm.

33
. United States Environmental Protection Agency, “Dioxins and Furans,” epa.gov/pbt/pubs/dioxins.htm.

34
. “Coming Clean, Case Study: Dioxin,” Chemical Body Burden website, chemicalbodyburden.org/cs_dioxin.htm.

35
. Mary Rothschild, “Study Says BPA Exposure, Risk Higher Than Assumed,”
Food Safety News
, September 23, 2010, foodsafetynews.com/2010/09/study-says-bpa-exposure-worse-than-previous-estimates/.

36
. A. M. Calafat et al., “Exposure of the U.S. Population to Bisphenol A and 4-tertiary-Octylphenol: 2003–2004,”
Environmental Health Perspectives
116 (2008): 39–44, doi:10.1289/ehp.10753, ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.10753.

37
. Environmental Working Group, “Bisphenol A: Toxic Plastics Chemical in Canned Foods,” March 2007, ewg.org/reports/bisphenola.

38
. Oregon Environmental Council, “SB 1032: BPA Legislative Fact Sheet,” oeconline.org/our-work/smart-policy/2010-bpa-legislation-fact-sheet.

39
. Environmental Working Group, “First BPA Detection in U.S. Infant Cord Blood,” December 2, 2009, ewg.org/minoritycordblood/pressrelease.

40
. Environmental Protection Agency, “Hudson River PCBs,” epa.gov/Region2/superfund/npl/0202229c.pdf.

41
. “Coming Clean, Case Study: Phthalates,” Chemical Body Burden website, chemicalbodyburden.org/cs_phthalate.htm.

42
. Jane A. Hoppin et al., “Reproducibility of Urinary Phthalate Metabolites in First Morning Urine Samples,”
Environmental Health Perspectives
108, no. 10 (October 2000), mindfully.org/Pesticide/Phthalate-Metabolites-Urinary.htm.

43
. United States Environmental Protection Agency, “Phthalates Action Plan Summary,” epa.gov/opptintr/existingchemicals/pubs/actionplans/phthalates.html.

44
. Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, “Unmasked: 10 Ugly Truths Behind the Myth of Cosmetic Safety,” safecos metics.org.

45
. Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, “Laws and Regulations,” safecosmetics.org/article.php?list=type&type=30.

46
. Vassar College Environmental Risks and Breast Cancer project, erbc.vassar.edu/.

47
. Ibid.

48
. Breast Cancer Fund, “What We Know, What We Need to Know,” breastcancerfund.org/assets/pdfs/publica tions/falling-age-of-puberty-adv-guide.pdf.

49
. Ibid.

50
. Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, “Not So Sexy: The Health Risks of Secret Chemicals in Fragrance,” May 2010, p. 4, safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=644.

51
. Ibid.

52
. Stephanie Smith, “Toxic Chemicals Finding Their Way into the Womb,” CNN, June 1 2010, articles.cnn.com/2010-06-01/health/backpack.cord.blood_1_toxic-chemicals-pregnant-women-cord-blood/2?_s=PM: HEALTH.

53
. Katsi Cook, “Women Are the First Environment,”
Indian Country
, December 23, 2003, p. 1.

54
. Commission for Racial Justice, United Church of Christ,
Toxic Waste and Race in the United States
(New York: Public Data Access, 1987).

55
. Loretta Ross, “Bridging the Environmental Justice and Reproductive Justice Movements,” SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective: Collective Voices (Summer 2009): 10–11.

56
. Heroism Project, “Lois Gibbs: Environmental Activist,” heroism.org/class/1970/gibbs.html.

57
. Eckardt C. Beck, “The Love Canal Tragedy,”
EPA Journal
, January 1979, epa.gov/history/topics/lovecanal/01.htm.

58
. Centre for Science and the Environment, “25 Years After Bhopal Gas Disaster: A Selection of News,” indi aenvironmentportal.org.in/files/Bhopal%20Gas%20 Disaster%20-%2025%20years%20after.pdf.

59
. Ibid.

60
. Pesticide Action Network UK, “The Bhopal Aftermath—Generations of Women Affected,” December 1999, pan-uk.org/pestnews/Issue/pn46/pn46p4.htm.

CHAPTER 26: THE POLITICS OF WOMEN'S HEALTH

1
. World Health Organization,
Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development. Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
(Geneva: WHO, 2001).

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