This openly licensed textbook explores the multidimensional aspects of health and wellness as they overlap the female experience. Reproductive anatomy and physiology (including pregnancy and childbirth), cancer risk, nutrition, fitness, gender and sexuality, self-care, and health ageing are introduced.

Table of Contents:
1. History and Current Issues in Women's Health
2. Female Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology
3. Nutrition and Fitness
4. Body Image and Self Care
5. Healthy Relationships and Sexuality
6. Pregnancy and Fetal Development
7. Labor and Childbirth
8. Breast Health and Female Cancers
9. Stress and Health
10. Growing Older

For the course MHCC - HPE 265. This course, open to all students interested in these topics, explores the dimensions of wellness specific to women's health with special attention to physical, social, emotional and environmental factors. Lessons will look at how various factors influence access to health care as well as choices women have in their own self-care. Female anatomy and physiology of pregnancy, childbirth, female anatomical dysfunction, female cancers, stress management and the aging process are also discussed. Students are exposed to a variety of female health topics and then asked to think critically about their own health history and lifestyle choices.