Women's Health Movements (2nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2020)
A Global Force for Change

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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.
Chapter 1 Women Organizing: Activism Worldwide
Chapter 2 The Global Context
Chapter 3 The Triple Day: Women’s Home, Community, and Workplace Environments
Chapter 4 Fighting for Good Health Services, Struggling with the Pharmaceutical Industry
Chapter 5 The Sexual Politics of Violence against Women
Chapter 6 Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Chapter 7 Toward a Universalism of Inclusion.
Meredeth Turshen taught at Rutgers University for 35 years. She has written six books, Women's Health Movements: A Global Force for Change (2019, 2007), The Political Ecology of Disease in Tanzania (1984), The Politics of Public Health (1989), Privatizing Health Services in Africa (1999), and Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa (2016). Her edited books include: Women and Health in Africa (1991), Women's Lives and Public Policy (1993), What Women Do in Wartime (1998), The Aftermath: Women in Postconflict Transformation (2002), and African Women (2010).

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