Description
Book SynopsisA thought-provoking look at women's health in developing nations!
This book shows how war, military regimes, industrialization, urbanization, and social upheaval have all affected the choices Southeast Asian women make about their health and health care. When you read these first-person accounts from Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Burma, you'll be drawn into the lives of women dealing with drastic changes in their societies. The meticulous case studies in this book examine how social, cultural, and economic forces contribute to the way women make personal health care decisions. Women's Health in Mainland Southeast Asia offers a thought-provoking look into the lives of women in this developing part of the world.
Topics addressed in Women's Health in Mainland Southeast Asia include:
- a proposed new approach to women's health, where treatment is determined by society, culture, and gender rather than by biology alone
- the relationship between menstruation and
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Reflections on Gender, Power, and Health in Mainland Southeast Asia
- Gendered Bodies: Recruitment, Management, and Occupational Health in Northern Thailand’s Electronics Factories
- Female Garment Factory Workers in Cambodia: Migration, Sex Work, and HIV/AIDS
- Negotiating Care: Reproductive Tract Infections in Vietnam
- Women’s Health in Northeast Thailand: Working at the Interface Between the Local and the Global
- Menstrual Madness: Women’s Health and Well-Being in Urban Burma
- Reproducing Inequalities: Abortion Policy and Practice in Thailand
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
