摘要：It has taken generations, if not centuries, of activism and advocacy within and beyond academia to legitimate gender as a "useful category of historical analysis" (Scott 1986, p. 1053), and sex/gender and health research still struggles for a bona fide place in the research/scholarly/biomedical world and beyond (Rosser 1994; Hubbard 1990; Birn & Kendal 2007). The relationships between sex/gender, and health are enormously complex, ranging from the social to the spiritual, political, and ideological, and always including the biological (Doyal 1995, Krieger 2003, Einstein & Shildrick, 2009). Amid this intellectual complexity, the Collaborative Graduate Program in Women's Health at the University of Toronto (founded and directed by Einstein) is working to explore and unify the myriad approaches and themes within the field ofwomen's health
