Foreword: Water Is Life / Josephine Mandamin

Introduction: The Production of Pollution and Consumption of Chemicals in Canada / Dayna Nadine Scott, Lauren Rakowski, Laila Zahra Harris, and Troy Dixon

Part 1: “Consuming” Chemicals

1 Wonderings on Pollution and Women’s Health / M. Ann Phillips

2 Protecting Ourselves from Chemicals: A Study of Gender and Precautionary Consumption / Norah MacKendrick

3 Sex and Gender in Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan / Dayna Nadine Scott and Sarah Lewis

Part 2: Routes of Women’s Exposures

4 Trace Chemicals on Tap: The Potential for Gendered Health Effects of Chronic Exposures via Drinking Water / Jyoti Phartiyal

5 Consuming “DNA as Chemicals” and Chemicals as Food / Bita Amani

6 Consuming Carcinogens: Women and Alcohol / Nancy Ross, Jean Morrison, Samantha Cukier, and Tasha Smith

Part 3: Hormones as the “Messengers of Gender”?

7 The Impact of Phthalates on Women’s Reproductive Health / Maria P. Velez, Patricia Monnier, Warren G. Foster, and William D. Fraser

8 Plastics Recycling and Women’s Reproductive Health / Aimée L. Ward and Annie Sasco

9 Xenoestrogens and Breast Cancer: Chemical Risk, Exposure, and Corporate Power / Sarah Young and Dugald Seely

Part 4: Consumption in the Production Process

10 Plastics Industry Workers and Breast Cancer Risk: Are We Heeding the Warnings? / Margaret M. Keith, James T. Brophy, Robert DeMatteo, Michael Gilbertson, Andrew E. Watterson, and Matthias Beck

11 Power and Control at the Production-Consumption Nexus: Migrant Women Farmworkers and Pesticides / Adrian A. Smith and Alexandra Stiver

Conclusion: Thinking about Thresholds, Literal and Figurative / Dayna Nadine Scott