Women’s Health Movements

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This book follows the implications of the changing landscape for women’s health and health care and their sexual and reproductive rights. In the latest national and international health policy developments, we are witnessing the effects of a series of concerted conservative attacks on women. Facing this onslaught, women’s health movements are using the new technologies of the Internet and social media and finding other novel ways to advance their rights and protest against attempts to roll back the gains they made in the last four decades. Detailed country case studies and discussions of topics ranging from violence against women, disability, and birth control, as well as abundant examples of women’s activism from all over the world make this account of women’s health movements a lively, informative, and compelling read.
This book follows the implications of the changing landscape for women’s health and health care and their sexual and reproductive rights. In the latest national and international health policy developments, we are witnessing the effects of a series of concerted conservative attacks on women. Facing this onslaught, women’s health movements are using the new technologies of the Internet and social media and finding other novel ways to advance their rights and protest against attempts to roll back the gains they made in the last four decades. Detailed country case studies and discussions of topics ranging from violence against women, disability, and birth control, as well as abundant examples of women’s activism from all over the world make this account of women’s health movements a lively, informative, and compelling read.
Informs, explains, analyzes, illustrates and reveals women’s health problems, the underlying determinants that structure those problems, and women’s resistance to detrimental change Offers detailed country case studies and abundant examples of women’s activism Satisfies the need for a cogently argued text on developments in women’s health and women’s health movements two decades after the startling advances achieved at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China Written in a lively and engaging style, with up-to-date information on a broad range of women’s health issues that extends far beyond reproductive rights, and a global context that puts health issues in the scope of current economic and political policies Examines and enlarges the focus upon the policy successes of women’s health movements as examined in the first edition

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Meredeth Turshen

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Women's health and hygiene International cooperation Women's social conditions Feminism and women's health Social movements Women's rights Public health Public policy Women’s studies

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“Turshen updates her unique global worldview on women’s health movements, highlighting achievements in women’s rights and economic development in the Global South. She challenges us to reconsider the impacts of feminism, anti-racism, and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) efforts as we read her sobering warnings about rising resistance to women’s progress everywhere.” (Norma Swenson and Judy Norsigian, co-founders and co-authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves)

“At a time when women’s health has become increasingly politicized on a global scale, Meredeth Turshen’s book provides an invaluable tool for understanding the need for closing global inequities in health and how to do so.  Turshen is a force to be reckoned with and readers of this book can utilize all that wisdom and experience as they navigate the myriad of issues around women’s global health.” (Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Faculty Director of the Center for Women and Work, and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, Author of The Global Gag Rule and Women’s Reproductive Health: Rhetoric versus Reality)

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