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Record Nr.

UNINA9910369932903321

Autore

Turshen Meredeth

Titolo

Women's health movements : a global force for change / / Meredeth Turshen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

981-13-9467-9

9780230607125

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 281 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Classificazione

28.08.20

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Women - Health and hygiene - Social aspects

Women - International cooperation

Women - Social conditions

Feminism - Health aspects

Social movements

Women's rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.