{"product_id":"womens-empowerment-and-global-health-9780520272880","title":"Womens Empowerment and Global Health","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? This book presents thirteen multidisciplinary case studies that demonstrate how science and advocacy can be creatively merged to enhance the agency and status of women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Introduction: Empowering Women for Health  Gita Sen   SECTION ONE. SOCIOCULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND HEALTH SERVICE INTERVENTIONS AS TOOLS OF EMPOWERMENT   Introduction  Dallas Swendeman and Paula Tavrow   1. Taking Services to the Doorstep: Providing Rural Indian Women Greater Control over Their Fertility  Pallavi Gupta, Kirti Iyengar, and Sharad Iyengar   2. Obstetric Fistula in Kenya: A Holistic Model of Outreach, Treatment, and Reintegration  Lindsey Pollaczek, Paula Tavrow, and Habiba Mohamed   3. Pathways to Choice: Delaying Age of Marriage through Girls' Education in Northern Nigeria  Daniel Perlman, Fatima Adamu, Mairo Mandara, Olorukooba Abiola, David Cao, and Malcolm Potts   4. Early Empowerment: The Evolution and Practice of Girls' \"Boot Camps\" in Kenya and Haiti  Karen Austrian, Judith Bruce, and M. Catherine Maternowska   5. Empowerment and HIV Risk Reduction among Sex Workers in Bangladesh  Victor Robinson, Theresa Y. Hwang, and Elisa Martinez   6. Gender Roles in U.S. Women with HIV: Intersection with Psychological and Physical Health Outcomes  Leslie R. Brody, Sannisha K. Dale, Gwendolyn A. Kelso, Ruth C. Cruise, Kathleen M. Weber, Lynissa R. Stokes, and Mardge H. Cohen   7. Examining the Impact of a Masculinities-Based HIV Prevention and Antiviolence Program in Limpopo and Eastern Cape, South Africa  Shari L. Dworkin, Abigail M. Hatcher, Christopher Colvin, and Dean Peacock   SECTION TWO. STRUCTURAL (LEGAL\/POLICY, ECONOMIC) INTERVENTIONS AS TOOLS OF EMPOWERMENT   Introduction  Shelly Grabe, Sheri Weiser, Shari L. Dworkin, Joanna Weinberg, and Lara Stemple   8. Empowering Adolescent Girls and Women for Improved Sexual Health in Zimbabwe: Lessons Learned from a Combined Livelihoods and Life Skills Intervention (SHAZ!)  Megan S. Dunbar and Imelda Mudekunye-Mahaka   9. Is Microfi nance Coupled with Gender Training Empowering for Women? Lessons from the IMAGE Process Evaluation in Rural South Africa  Abigail M. Hatcher, Jacques de Wet, Christopher Bonell, Godfrey Phetla, Vicki Strange, Paul Pronyk, Julia Kim, Linda Morison, Charlotte Watts, John Porter, and James R. Hargreaves   10. Older U.S. Women's Economic Security, Health, and Empowerment: The Fight against Opponents of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid  Carroll L. Estes   11. Women's Health and Empowerment after the Decriminalization of Abortion in Mexico City  Gustavo Ortiz Millan   12. Impact of a Grassroots Property Rights Program on Women's Empowerment in Rural Kenya  Kate Grunke-Horton and Shari L. Dworkin   13. Land Tenure and Women's Empowerment and Health: A Programmatic Evaluation of Structural Change in Nicaragua  Shelly Grabe, Anjali Dutt, and Carlos Arenas   Conclusions: A Twenty-First-Century Agenda for Women's Empowerment and Health  Shari L. Dworkin and Lara Stemple   List of Contributors  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402857259351,"sku":"9780520272880","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520272880.jpg?v=1730481696","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/womens-empowerment-and-global-health-9780520272880","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}