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This Handbook brings together a groundbreaking collection of chapters that uses a gender lens to explore health, healthcare and health policy in both the Global South and North. Empirical evidence is drawn from a variety of different settings and points to the many ways in which the gendered dimensi...
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Edward Elgar Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Cheltenham, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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International handbooks on gender
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| Summary: |
This Handbook brings together a groundbreaking collection of chapters that uses a gender lens to explore health, healthcare and health policy in both the Global South and North. Empirical evidence is drawn from a variety of different settings and points to the many ways in which the gendered dimensions of health have become reworked across the globe. This collection includes insightful contributions from 56 leading authorities from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, offering a wealth of knowledge, theoretical reflection, and empirical detail on the essential elements surrounding gender and health. Topics covered include theoretical approaches to understanding gender and health, migration, sexuality, ageing, masculinities, climate change and sexual and reproductive rights. Split into four thematic sections, this book strives to develop a clear road map towards achieving gender justice in health. The Handbook on Gender and Health will be an important resource for researchers, students, as well as instructors of health policy and family and gender studies. |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 603 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781784710859 1784710857 |
| Index Number: | RA564 |
| CLC: | R16-62 |
| Call Number: | R16-62/H236 |
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INTRODUCTION -- Gender and health: an introduction / GENDER, HEALTH AND PUBLIC POLICY -- Agenda-setting in women's health: critical analysis of a quarter-century of paradigm shifts in international and global health / Gender, health and climate change / Towards a new political agenda for indigenous women's health in Latin America in the post-2015 era / Dangerous discourses? Silencing women within `global mental health' practice / Cost-cutting, co-production and cash transfers: neoliberal policy, health and gender / Applying a genders lens to public health discourses on men's health / Men, `masculinity' and mental health: critical reflections / Stigmatized, marginalized and overlooked: health, later life and gender in India and the United Kingdom / GENDER, WORK AND HEALTH -- Gender, work and health: a step forward in women's occupational health / Intersectionality: the value for occupational health research / Gendered work violence issues and mental health among Chilean women workers / GENDER, MIGRATION AND HEALTH -- Migration, gender and health / Migration and health in a Chinese context: examining the linkages through a gender lens / Engendered movements: migration, gender and health in a globalized world / Migration and sex work in South Africa: key concerns for gender and health / GENDER AND HEALTH SYSTEMS -- Gender equity and the politics of health sector reform: overcoming policy legacies and forming epistemic communities / Gender and commercialization of health care / Commercialization in maternity care: uncovering trends in the contemporary health care economy / Building post-conflict health systems: a gender analysis from Northern Uganda / Reproductive health care and indigenous peoples in Venezuela / HOUSEHOLDS, HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE -- Cycles of violence in gendered social contexts: why does child maltreatment lead to increased risk of intimate partner violence in adulthood? / Capacities to exercise strategic decision-making agency: exploring the gendered production of health within intimate partnerships and households / GENDER, SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND HEALTH -- Citizen monitoring: promoting health rights among socially excluded women in Andean Peru / Emergent masculinities, men's health and the Movember movement / GENDER, HEALTH, SEXUALITY AND RIGHTS -- Men's sexual health and destiny / Claiming Rosa Parks: conservative Catholic bids for `rights' in contemporary Latin America / Conservative backlashes to women's bodily integrity in Latin America: the case of Chile / Deconstructing human rights-based discourses: the case of women's right to health and health sector reforms in Brazil / Men, masculinities and health in Brazil: a feminist critique / Sexual health or rights? USAID-funded HIV/AIDS interventions for key populations in Ghana / Positive women managing reproduction in the HIV pandemic / |