Geographies of Women's Health: Place, Diversity and Difference
by Lewis, Nancy Davis; Dyck, Isabel; McLafferty, SaraPub. Date: 2002-01-04
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | p. viii |
| Notes on contributors | p. x |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Why geographies of women's health? | p. 1 |
| Globalization, structural change, and political realignment: implications for women's health | p. 21 |
| Women's health in Europe: beyond epidemiology? | p. 23 |
| Scales of justice: women, equity, and HIV in East Africa | p. 41 |
| Women workers and the regulation of health and safety on the industrial periphery: the case of Northern Thailand | p. 61 |
| Looking back, looking around, looking forward: a woman's right to choose | p. 88 |
| Providing and gaining access to health care: local areas and networks | p. 105 |
| Home care restructuring at work: the impact of policy transformation on women's labor | p. 107 |
| "Thank God she's not sick": health and disciplinary practice among Salvadoran women in northern New Jersey | p. 127 |
| Babies and borderlands: factors that influence Sonoran women's decision to seek prenatal care in southern Arizona | p. 143 |
| Differing access to social networks: rural and urban women in India with reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases | p. 159 |
| Walking the talk: research partnerships in women's business in Australia | p. 177 |
| Embodied health and illness, perceptions, and place | p. 195 |
| "The baby is turning": child-bearing in Wanigela, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea | p. 197 |
| Fear and trembling in the mall: women, agoraphobia, and body boundaries | p. 213 |
| Material bodies precariously positioned: women embodying chronic illness in the workplace | p. 231 |
| The beauty of health: locating young women's health and appearance | p. 248 |
| Women in their place: gender and perceptions of neighborhoods and health in the West of Scotland | p. 265 |
| Index | p. 282 |
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