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Book SynopsisFor many women around the globe, health has become the central intersection of the personal and the political; women''s bodies are the arena for policy debates about population, poverty, reproduction, and morality.Women''s Global Health: Norms and State Policies is a comprehensive assessment of health for women around the globe that will inform debates underway in a wide range of disciplines. These fields include public health, most obviously, but also sociology, anthropology and other disciplines. This book will advance the interdisciplinary fields of ethics, women's studies, and international studies. It answers several questions with implications for knowledge in the preceding fields, along with relevance to policy. Some of these complex questions include: How do the laws and policies of a nation-state affect women''s health? Is the state invested in these issues because women are seen to be bearers and nurturers of future citizens? Or are there other concerns such as economic develTrade ReviewThis book, based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Southern California, The Ethics of State Involvement in Women's Health, explores women’s global health from a multidimensional, transnational perspective. Grounded in previous ethnographic research, the book analyzes the topic from a norms and state policy viewpoint, as the subtitle indicates. Case materials and examples are derived from the United Nations organization, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, Mozambique, Tanzania, the US, Iran, India, and Sri Lanka. Key subjects addressed in the nine chapters include a definition of women’s global health, women’s rights, the role and power of women, access to resources, and politics, laws, and governance. The volume is eclectic in its approach to this subject, with contributions from scholars in political science, anthropology, ethics, women’s studies, and international studies. The authors make suggestions for an expanded, comprehensive research agenda that underscores the importance of facilitating positive norms and state policies to advance the health of women worldwide. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. * CHOICE *This new book, Women’s Global Health, co-edited by Boyd-Judson and James, fills an important niche in the expanding women’s health and politics literature. First, it examines the feedback loop between international norms and domestic policies, and includes some pathbreaking new studies on countries not usually included in comparative texts from Asia and Africa. This type of study has been needed for a long time and will be useful to students and practitioners at many levels. -- Melissa Haussman, Professor of Political Science, Carleton UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Women’s Global Health, Norms and State Policies Lyn Boyd-Judson and Patrick James Chapter 2: Gender Equity—United Nations Closing the Gender Gap in Global Health: Norms, International Aid, and Outcomes for Women’s Health Debra L. DeLaet Chapter 3: Prostitution and Trafficking—Sweden, Netherlands, and Germany Social Norms and Policies on Prostitution and Trafficking: Swedish, Dutch, and German Evidence Nadejda Marinova and Patrick James Chapter 4: Abortion Legality—Mozambique and Tanzania Morality, Legality, and Health: The Influence of the Grounds of Abortion Legality on Abortion-Related Health Issues Laura Sjoberg Chapter 5: Global Gag Rule on Abortion Speech—United States US Family Planning Policy and Domestic Divisions: Implications for Women’s Reproductive Health Karen L. Baird Chapter 6: Breastfeeding and the Role of the State—Iran State Policies Restricting Access to Infant Formula: Ethics and Impact on Women’s and Children’s Health Leah R. Perlman and Kathryn Roberts Chapter 7: Government Cash Incentives for Institutional Deliveries—India Ethics and Global Health Promotion: The Government-Sponsored Janani Suraksha Yojana Maternal Health Financing Scheme in India Katherine Ba-Thike and Ayushi Gummadi Chapter 8: Expanding Dimensions of Women’s Health—Sri Lanka ‘Beyond Reproduction’: A New Shift in Women’s Health in Sri Lanka? Darshi Thoradeniya Chapter 9: What Have We Learned? Patrick James and Lyn Boyd-Judson

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Book SynopsisA thought provoking examination of the interrelationship between and among feminist bioethics, human rights, and global development, Linking Visions addresses global concerns about oppression in the context of health care, medical research, and population health. Reflecting the ever-expanding diversity and comprehensiveness of feminist bioethics, contributors examine such topics as reproductive rights of women in India, HIV/AIDs policies, patenting genetic material, the language of human rights, and consequences of the OGlobal Gag RuleO. Linking Visions demonstrates the far-reaching effects of feminism on global bioethics, highlighting and celebrating the reality that feminist work is no longer relegated solely to the realm of reproductive, sexual, or maternal ethics.Trade ReviewAnother FAB feast! This collection of thought-provoking essays advances feminist bioethics—and all bioethics. Its gems will be building blocks for further research and a wonderful resource for teaching. -- Laura Purdy, professor of philosophy and Ruth and Albert Koch Professor of Humanities at Wells College in Aurora, New YorkThe collection is thought provoking....and well worth reading....It is a valuable contribution in the battle for a socially just world. * Philosophy in Review, October 2006 *In this collection, the editors have brought together an impressive range of international voices addressing the connections among feminism, human rights, and global development. The result is a fascinating and rigorous examination of the common ground between these three fundamental areas of bioethics. This collection demonstrates the significant contributions that feminist analysis can make to questions of human rights and development, and broadens the debate in important ways. Feminist ethics has much to offer, and much to gain from, dialogues of this nature. -- Wendy Rogers, associate professor of medical ethics and health law at Flinders University in AustraliaTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Integrating Global and Local Perspectives Part 2 Part I: Exploring Affinities between Feminist Bioethics and Human Rights Chapter 3 What Feminism Can Teach Global Ethics Chapter 4 Integrating Bioethics and Human Rights: Toward a Global Feminist Approach Chapter 5 Bioethics, Difference, and Rights Chapter 6 Feminist Bioethics and the Language of Human Rights in the Chinese Context Chapter 8 Feminist Perspectives, Global Bioethics, and the Need for Moral Language Translation Skills Chapter 9 On Learning How to Care Appropriately: A Case for Developing a Model of Support to Those in Need Part 9 Part II: Contextualizing Reproduction: Particular Perspectives Chapter 10 Feminist Bioethics and Reproductive Rights of Women in India: Myth and Reality Chapter 11 Globalizing Reproductive Control: The Consequences of the "Global Gag Rule" Chapter 13 A Boy or a Girl: Is Any Choice Moral? The Ethics of Sex Selection and Sex Preselection in Context Chapter 14 Right-Making and Wrong-Making in Surrogate Motherhood: A Confucian Feminist Perspective Part 14 Part III: Righting Genetic Wrongs: Restoring Relationships Chapter 15 Patents on Genetic Material: A New Originary Accumulation Chapter 16 Genetic Restitution? DNA, Compensation, and Biological Families Part 17 Part IV: Viewing HIV Policies through a Human Rights Framework Chapter 19 Global Migrants, Gendered Tradition, and Human Rights: Black Africans and HIV in the United Kingdom Chapter 19 HIV/AIDS Policies: Compromising the Human Rights of Women

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Book SynopsisFor many women around the globe, health has become the central intersection of the personal and the political; women''s bodies are the arena for policy debates about population, poverty, reproduction, and morality.Women''s Global Health: Norms and State Policies is a comprehensive assessment of health for women around the globe that will inform debates underway in a wide range of disciplines. These fields include public health, most obviously, but also sociology, anthropology and other disciplines. This book will advance the interdisciplinary fields of ethics, women's studies, and international studies. It answers several questions with implications for knowledge in the preceding fields, along with relevance to policy. Some of these complex questions include: How do the laws and policies of a nation-state affect women''s health? Is the state invested in these issues because women are seen to be bearers and nurturers of future citizens? Or are there other concerns such as economic develTrade ReviewThis book, based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Southern California, The Ethics of State Involvement in Women's Health, explores women’s global health from a multidimensional, transnational perspective. Grounded in previous ethnographic research, the book analyzes the topic from a norms and state policy viewpoint, as the subtitle indicates. Case materials and examples are derived from the United Nations organization, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, Mozambique, Tanzania, the US, Iran, India, and Sri Lanka. Key subjects addressed in the nine chapters include a definition of women’s global health, women’s rights, the role and power of women, access to resources, and politics, laws, and governance. The volume is eclectic in its approach to this subject, with contributions from scholars in political science, anthropology, ethics, women’s studies, and international studies. The authors make suggestions for an expanded, comprehensive research agenda that underscores the importance of facilitating positive norms and state policies to advance the health of women worldwide. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. * CHOICE *This new book, Women’s Global Health, co-edited by Boyd-Judson and James, fills an important niche in the expanding women’s health and politics literature. First, it examines the feedback loop between international norms and domestic policies, and includes some pathbreaking new studies on countries not usually included in comparative texts from Asia and Africa. This type of study has been needed for a long time and will be useful to students and practitioners at many levels. -- Melissa Haussman, Professor of Political Science, Carleton UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Women’s Global Health, Norms and State Policies Lyn Boyd-Judson and Patrick James Chapter 2: Gender Equity—United Nations Closing the Gender Gap in Global Health: Norms, International Aid, and Outcomes for Women’s Health Debra L. DeLaet Chapter 3: Prostitution and Trafficking—Sweden, Netherlands, and Germany Social Norms and Policies on Prostitution and Trafficking: Swedish, Dutch, and German Evidence Nadejda Marinova and Patrick James Chapter 4: Abortion Legality—Mozambique and Tanzania Morality, Legality, and Health: The Influence of the Grounds of Abortion Legality on Abortion-Related Health Issues Laura Sjoberg Chapter 5: Global Gag Rule on Abortion Speech—United States US Family Planning Policy and Domestic Divisions: Implications for Women’s Reproductive Health Karen L. Baird Chapter 6: Breastfeeding and the Role of the State—Iran State Policies Restricting Access to Infant Formula: Ethics and Impact on Women’s and Children’s Health Leah R. Perlman and Kathryn Roberts Chapter 7: Government Cash Incentives for Institutional Deliveries—India Ethics and Global Health Promotion: The Government-Sponsored Janani Suraksha Yojana Maternal Health Financing Scheme in India Katherine Ba-Thike and Ayushi Gummadi Chapter 8: Expanding Dimensions of Women’s Health—Sri Lanka ‘Beyond Reproduction’: A New Shift in Women’s Health in Sri Lanka? Darshi Thoradeniya Chapter 9: What Have We Learned? Patrick James and Lyn Boyd-Judson

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnother FAB feast! This collection of thought-provoking essays advances feminist bioethics—and all bioethics. Its gems will be building blocks for further research and a wonderful resource for teaching. -- Laura Purdy, professor of philosophy and Ruth and Albert Koch Professor of Humanities at Wells College in Aurora, New YorkThe collection is thought provoking....and well worth reading....It is a valuable contribution in the battle for a socially just world. * Philosophy in Review, October 2006 *In this collection, the editors have brought together an impressive range of international voices addressing the connections among feminism, human rights, and global development. The result is a fascinating and rigorous examination of the common ground between these three fundamental areas of bioethics. This collection demonstrates the significant contributions that feminist analysis can make to questions of human rights and development, and broadens the debate in important ways. Feminist ethics has much to offer, and much to gain from, dialogues of this nature. -- Wendy Rogers, associate professor of medical ethics and health law at Flinders University in AustraliaTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Integrating Global and Local Perspectives Part 2 Part I: Exploring Affinities between Feminist Bioethics and Human Rights Chapter 3 What Feminism Can Teach Global Ethics Chapter 4 Integrating Bioethics and Human Rights: Toward a Global Feminist Approach Chapter 5 Bioethics, Difference, and Rights Chapter 6 Feminist Bioethics and the Language of Human Rights in the Chinese Context Chapter 8 Feminist Perspectives, Global Bioethics, and the Need for Moral Language Translation Skills Chapter 9 On Learning How to Care Appropriately: A Case for Developing a Model of Support to Those in Need Part 9 Part II: Contextualizing Reproduction: Particular Perspectives Chapter 10 Feminist Bioethics and Reproductive Rights of Women in India: Myth and Reality Chapter 11 Globalizing Reproductive Control: The Consequences of the "Global Gag Rule" Chapter 13 A Boy or a Girl: Is Any Choice Moral? The Ethics of Sex Selection and Sex Preselection in Context Chapter 14 Right-Making and Wrong-Making in Surrogate Motherhood: A Confucian Feminist Perspective Part 14 Part III: Righting Genetic Wrongs: Restoring Relationships Chapter 15 Patents on Genetic Material: A New Originary Accumulation Chapter 16 Genetic Restitution? DNA, Compensation, and Biological Families Part 17 Part IV: Viewing HIV Policies through a Human Rights Framework Chapter 19 Global Migrants, Gendered Tradition, and Human Rights: Black Africans and HIV in the United Kingdom Chapter 19 HIV/AIDS Policies: Compromising the Human Rights of Women

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