Engaging ideas, transforming minds
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Pat Armstrong is Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. An extremely prolific academic, Armstrong is the author, co-author, or editor of over 25 books and dozens of book chapters and journal articles. With CSPI, Armstrong has published six books: Troubling Care: Critical Perspectives on Research and Practices (2013); Thinking Women and Health Care Reform in Canada (co-edited with Barbara Chow, Karen Grant, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Beth Jackson, and Ann Pederson, 2012); Women’s Health: Intersections of Policy, Research, and Practice (co-edited with Jennifer Deadman, 2008); Studies in Political Economy (co-edited with Caroline Andrew and Hugh Armstrong, 2003); Feminism, Political Economy, and the State (1992); and Feminism in Action (co-edited with Patricia Connelly, 1992). In 2011, she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and honoured as a Distinguished Research Professor for outstanding contributions to the University through research in 2010. Armstrong has authored several research reports for unions, public commissions, and non-profit organizations, served as Chair for the Canadian Institute of Health Research, and appeared as an expert witness on more than a dozen cases related to women’s health care work and pay equity.

Books

  • February 2012
  • 9780889614857
  • $53.95 Print
  • $48.95 Digital

Thinking Women and Health Care Reform in Canada

Pat Armstrong, Barbara Clow, Karen Grant, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Beth Jackson, Ann Pederson, Morgan Seeley
  • August 2013
  • 9781551305400
  • $67.95 Print
  • $62.95 Digital

Troubling Care

Critical Perspectives on Research and Practices
Pat Armstrong, Susan Braedley
  • November 2015
  • 9780889615700
  • $82.95 Print
  • $77.95 Digital

Women's Health, Second Edition

Intersections of Policy, Research, and Practice
Pat Armstrong, Ann Pederson
  • February 2003
  • 9780889614123
  • $51.95 Print
  • $46.95 Digital

Studies in Political Economy

Developments in Feminism
Caroline Andrew, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Wallace Clement, Leah Vosko