Cecilia Benoit

Ph.D. 1989, University of Toronto. Gender and social citizenship rights; heath disparities among vulnerable populations; sex work; social inequality; Aboriginal women's health; youth and society; stigma; transitions to adulthood; midwifery and maternity care.

Department: Sociology
Position: Professor
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Phone: (250) 721.7578
Box: P.O. Box 3050 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8W 3P5
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Benoit, C., (Forthcoming), Historical Linkages between Reproduction, Pronatalism and Professional Institutions in North America, Journal of Women’s History.

Benoit, C.; Jansson, M.; Casey, L.; Phillips, R.; Burns, D., (Forthcoming), Developing KT with Non-Profit Organizations Serving Vulnerable Populations, Knowledge Translation in Community-based Research and Social Policy Contexts, Banister, E.; Leadbeater, B.; Marshall, A., University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Bourgeault, I.; Benoit, C.; Hirschkorn, K., (Forthcoming), Comparative Perspectives on Professional Groups: Current Issues and Critical Debates, Current Sociology.

Jansson, M.; Benoit, C.; Casey, L.; Phillips, R.; Burns, D., (Forthcoming), In for the Long Haul: Knowledge Translation between Academic and Non-Profit Organizations, Qualitative Health Research.

Sandall, J.; Benoit, C.; Teijlingen, E. V.; Wrede, S.; Westfall, R.; Murray, S. F., (Forthcoming), Social Service Professional or Market Expert? Maternity care relations under neoliberal healthcare reform, Current Sociology.

Bourgeault, I.; Benoit, C. (ed), (2009), Comparative Perspectives on Professional Groups: Current Issues and Debates, Current Sociology, Special Issue.

Teijlingen, E. v.; Wrede, S.; Benoit, C.; Sandall, J.; DeVries, R., (2009), Comparative Analyses of Youth Sex Education and Maternity Care in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands: The Importance of Social and Cultural Factors, Sociological Research Online, 1: 14.

Benoit, C., (2008), Researching Gang-Organized Juvenile Prostitution: Contributions and Challenges, Teenage Girls under Influence/Jeunes Filles sous, Dorais, M., McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal/Kingston.

Benoit, C.; Hallgrimsdottir, H. (ed), (2008), Finding Dignity in Health Care and Health Care Work: Current Sociology (Special Supplement).

Benoit, C.; Hallgrimsdottir, H. K., (2008), Engendering Research on Care and Care Work across Different Social Contexts, CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 99, S7-S10.

Benoit, C.; Jansson, M.; Hallgrimsdotter, H.; Roth, E., (2008), Street youth's life-course transitions, Comp. Soc. Res. Comparative Social Research, 25, 325-353.

Benoit, C.; Jansson, S. M.; Hallgrimsdottir, H. K.; Roth, E., (2008), Street Youth’s Life Course Transitions, Comparative Social Research, 25.

Bourgeault, I.; Declercq, E.; Sandall, J.; Wrede, S.; Vanstone, M.; van Teijlingen, E.; DeVries, R.; Benoit, C., (2008), Too Posh To Push? Comparative perspectives on maternal request caesarean sections in Canada, the US, the UK and Finland, Adv. Med. Sociol. Advances in Medical Sociology, 10, 99-123.

Hallgrmsdttir, H. K.; Phillips, R.; Benoit, C.; Walby, K., (2008), Sporting Girls, Streetwalkers, and Inmates of Houses of Ill Repute: Media Narratives and the Historical Mutability of Prostitution Stigmas, Sociological Perspectives, 51: 1, 119-139.

Macionis, J. J. J., S. Mikael Benoit, Cecilia M. , (2008), Society--the basics, fourth Canadian edition [by] Macionis/Jansson/Benoit. , Pearson Education Canada, Toronto.

Shumka, L.; Benoit, C., (2008), SOCIAL SUFFERING AND GAPS IN ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE FOR VULNERABLE WOMEN WORKERS, Research in the sociology of health care., 25, 253-276.

Westfall, R.; Benoit, C., (2008), Interpreting compliance and resistance to medical dominance in women's accounts of their pregnancies, Sociol. Res. Online Sociological Research Online, 13: 3.

Wrede, S.; Benoit, C.; Einarsdottir, T., (2008), Equity and Dignity in Maternity Care Provision in Canada, Finland and Iceland, CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 99, S16-S21.

Benoit, C.; Carroll, D.; Westfall, R., (2007), Women's Access to Maternity Services in Canada: Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges, Women's Health in Canada: Critical Theory, Policy and Practice, Varcoe, C.; Hankivsky, O.; Morrow, M., University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Benoit, C.; Jansson, S. M.; Anderson, M., (2007), Understanding Health Disparities among Female Street Youth, Urban Girls; Building Strengths, Leadbeater, B.; Way, N., New York University Press, New York.

Benoit, C.; Westfall, R.; Treloar, A.; Phillips, R.; Jansson, S. M., (2007), Social Determinants of Postpartum Depression: A Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Study, Journal of Mental Health, 16: 6, 719-730.

Hallgrimsdottir, H. K.; Benoit, C., (2007), From Wage Slaves to Wage Workers: Cultural Opportunity Structures and the Evolution of the Wage Demands of the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor, 1880-1900, Social Forces, 85: 3, 1393-1411.

Shumka, L.; Benoit, C., (2007), Social Suffering and Gaps in Alternative Health Care for Vulnerable Women Service Workers, Sociology of Health Care, 25.

Teijlingen, E. v.; Wrede, S.; Benoit, C.; Kozyrskyj, A.; Becker, A., (2007), Born in the USA: Exceptionalism in Maternity Care Organization AMong High-income Countries, Reflections From Afar, Smith, A. R.; Hoover, M. C..

Benoit, C.; Carroll, D.; Eni, R., (2006), To Watch, To Care: Stories of Aboriginal Midwifery in Canada, Canadian Journal of Midwifery Research and Practice, 5: 1, 11-17.

Benoit, C.; Shaver, F. M., (2006), Critical Issues and New Directions in Sex Work Research, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 43: 3, 243.

Hallgrimsdottir, H. K.; Benoit, C.; Phillips, R., (2006), Fallen Women and Rescued Girls: Social Stigma and Media Narratives of the Sex Industry in Victoria, B.C., from 1980 to 2005, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 43: 3, 265.

Jansson, S. M.; Benoit, C., (2006), Respect or Protect? Ethical Challenges in Conducting Community-Academic Research with Street-Involved Youth, Ethical Issues in Community-Based Research with Children and Youth, Leadbeater, B.; et al., 175-189, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario.

Leadbeater, B.; Benoit, C., (2006), Ethical issues in community-based research with children and youth, University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Protudjer, J.; Marchessault, G.; Benoit, C.; Kozyrskyj, A.; Becker, A., (2006), Asthmatic and non-asthmatic children have similar levels of body dissatisfaction, Asthma, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology, 2: 4, 143.

Wrede, S.; Benoit, C.; Bourgeault, I. L.; van Teijlingen, E. R.; Sandall, J.; De Vries, R. G., (2006), Decentred comparative research: Context sensitive analysis of maternal health care, Social Science & Medicine, 63: 11, 2986.

Benoit, C.; Jansson, S. M.; Millar, A.; Phillips, R., (2005), Community-Academic Research on Hard-to-Reach Populations: Benefits and Challenges, Qualitative Health Research, 15: 2, 263-282.

Benoit, C.; Wrede, S.; Bourgeault, I.; Sandall, J.; Van Teijlingen, E.; DeVries, R., (2005), Understanding the Social Organisation of Maternity Care Systems: Midwifery as a Touchstone., Sociology of Health and Illness, 27: 6, 722-737.

Macionis, J. J.; Jansson, S. M.; Benoit, C., (2005), Society: The Basics, Prentice Hall, Toronto.

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