No matter what our chosen majors or career paths, everyone needs healthcare, and the systems in which we access it reflect the structures and inequalities of society as a whole. provides an array of activist and academic perspectives on health and healthcare for women and other marginalized people. Created specifically for the University of Wisconsin-Madison's flagship Gender and Women's Studies health course, GWS 103, this reader builds on classic content to address important new ideas and continue the course's proud tradition of enhancing students' knowledge and self-efficacy as both patients and activists. Edited by a former member of the UW-Madison GWS 103 teaching team who holds a PhD in Sociology from UW-Madison, this volume also includes numerous contributions from past and present GWS 103 students, teaching assistants, and instructors, many of whom hold UW-Madison GWS degrees.