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Book SynopsisThis Handbook brings together a groundbreaking collection of chapters that uses a gender lens to explore health, health care 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, and instructors of health policy and family and gender studies.
Contributors include: G. Alvarez Minte, E. Ansoleaga Moreno, L. Artazcoz, A.-E. Birn, R.A. Burgess, A. Coates, I. Cortès-Franch, S. Del Pino, K. Devries, X. Díaz Berr, L. Doyal, K. Elzein, V. Escribà-Agüir, B. Eveslage, C. Ewig, J. Gideon, J. Gonçalves Martín, B. Gough, H. Grundlingh, M. Gutmann, R.R. Habib, M.C. Inhorn, D. Johnston, D.M. Kamuya, L. Knight, M. Koivusalo, R. Kumar, M. Leite, J. Lyra, E. MacPherson, A.M. Cardarelli, P. McDonough, B. Medrado, L.M. Morgan, S.F. Murray, J. Namakula, L. Núñez Carrasco, S. Payne, E. Richards, N. Richardson, M. Richter, S. Robertson, M. Robinson, J. Samuel, S. Sexton, J.A. Smith, S. Smith, D.L. Spitzer, S.N. Ssali, S. Theobald, R. Tolhurst, J. Vearey, P. Vero-Sanso, S. Witter, N. Younes, F. Zalwango
Trade Review'Gender, one of the most misunderstood but important determinants of health, is expertly analysed, reviewed and critiqued in this invaluable book. Jasmine Gideon and her co-authors deliver a comprehensive analysis of the meanings of both gender and health, and discuss both contemporary and more recent historical debates about the relationship between the two. With voices from the global north and south, and from both men and women, this book will be invaluable reading for anyone (academics, practitioners, advocates, activists) concerned with ensuring the links between gender and health - whether as determinant, outcome, or system response - are fully acknowledged, understood and addressed in order to improve health outcomes for everyone.' --Sarah Hawkes, University College London, UK
'This Handbook is a compilation of reflections that place the subjects of gender and health in historical and political context. As such, it makes for important reading for anyone in the field, including students, who are trying to critically understand the ways in which both global health narratives and the organization of health systems construct power relations that inevitably have gendered dimensions. Particularly useful are the chapters that cover new terrain - public private partnerships and the manifestations of commercialization within health sectors - and which look at specific populations and regions - from indigenous women's health post 2015, to migration and health in China. Jasmine Gideon's excellent introduction draws out important themes throughout the volume.' --Alicia Ely Yamin, Harvard University
Table of ContentsContents: PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Gender and Health: An Introduction Jasmine Gideon PART II GENDER, HEALTH AND PUBLIC POLICY 2. Agenda-Setting in Women’s Health: Critical Analysis of a Quarter Century of Paradigm Shifts in International and Global Health Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Peggy Mcdonough 3. Gender, Health and Climate Change Sarah Payne 4. Towards a New Political Agenda for Indigenous Women’s Health in Latin America in the Post 2015 Era Anna Coates and Sandra Del Pino 5. Dangerous Discourses? Silencing Women Within ‘Global Mental Health’ Practice Rochelle Ann Burgess 6. Cost-Cutting, Coproduction and Cash Transfers: Neoliberal Policy, Health and Gender Deborah Johnston 7. Applying a Genders Lens to Public Health Discourses on Men’s Health James A. Smith, Noel Richardson and Steve Robertson 8. Men, ‘Masculinity’ and Mental Health: Critical Reflections Brendan Gough, Steve Robertson and Mark Robinson 9. Stigmatised, Marginalised and Overlooked: Health, Later Life and Gender in India and the United Kingdom Penny Vera-Sanso PART III GENDER, WORK AND HEALTH 10. Gender, Work and Health: A Step Forward in Women’s Occupational Health Lucía Artazcoz, Imma Cortès-Franch and Vicenta Escribà-Agüir 11. Intersectionality: The Value for Occupational Health Research Rima R. Habib, Kareem Elzein and Nadia Younes 12. Gendered Work Violence Issues and Mental Health Among Chilean Women Workers Elisa Ansoleaga Moreno, Ximena Díaz Berr and Amalia Mauro Cardarelli PART IV GENDER, MIGRATION AND HEALTH 13. Migration, Gender and Health Lorena Núñez Carrasco 14. Migration and Health in a Chinese Context: Examining the Linkages Through a Gender Lens Jasmine Gideon 15. Engendered Movements: Migration, Gender, and Health in a Globalised World Denise L. Spitzer 16. Migration and Sex Work in South Africa: Key Concerns for Gender and Health Marlise Richter and Jo Vearey PART V GENDER AND HEALTH SYSTEMS 17. Gender Equity and the Politics of Health Sector Reform: Overcoming Policy Legacies, Forming Epistemic Communities Christina Ewig 18. Gender and Commercialization of Health Care Meri Koivusalo and Sarah Sexton 19. Commercialization in Maternity Care: Uncovering Trends in the Contemporary Healthcare Economy Susan F. Murray 20. Building Post Conflict Health Systems: A Gender Analysis from Northern Uganda Sarah N. Ssali, Sally Theobald, Justine Namakula and Sophie Witter 21. Reproductive Health Care and Indigenous Peoples in Venezuela Johanna Gonçalves Martín PART VI HOUSEHOLDS, HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE 22. Cycles of Violence in Gendered Social Contexts: Why Does Child Maltreatment Lead to Increased Risk of Intimate Partner Violence in Adulthood? Karen Devries, Heidi Grundlingh and Louise Knight 23. Capacities to Exercise Strategic Decision-Making Agency: Exploring the Gendered Production of Health Within Intimate Partnerships and Households Rachel Tolhurst, Esther Richards, Eleanor Macpherson, Dorcas M. Kamuya, Flavia Zalwango and Sally Theobald PART VII GENDER, SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND HEALTH 24. Citizen Monitoring: Promoting Health Rights Among Socially Excluded Women in Andean Peru Jeannie Samuel 25. Emergent Masculinities, Men’s Health, and the Movember Movement Sara Smith and Marcia C. Inhorn PART VIII GENDER, HEALTH, SEXUALITY AND RIGHTS 26. Men’s Sexual Health and Destiny Matthew Gutmann 27. Claiming Rosa Parks: Conservative Catholic Bids for “Rights” in Contemporary Latin America Lynn M. Morgan 28. Conservative Backlashes to Women’s Bodily Integrity in Latin America; The Case of Chile Gabriela Alvarez Minte 29. Deconstructing Human Rights-Based Discourses: The Case of Women's Right to Health and Health Sector Reforms in Brazil Marianna Leite 30. Men, Masculinities and Health in Brazil: A Feminist Critique Jorge Lyra and Benedito Medrado 31. Sexual Health or Rights? USAID-Funded HIV/AIDS Interventions for Key Populations in Ghana Benjamin Eveslage 32. Positive Women Managing Reproduction in the HIV Pandemic Lesley Doyal Index
