Davis Lewis / Dyck / McLafferty Geographies of Women's Health

Place, Diversity and Difference
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-134-56249-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world. The chapters work together in examining the complex layering of social, economic and political relations that frame women's health. The authors demonstrate that women's health needs to be understood 'in place' if gains are to be made in improving women's health and health care.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis Lewis, Nancy

Dyck, Isabel

McLafferty, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Why geographies of women's health? Isabel Dyck, Nancy Davis Lewis and Sara McLafferty

Part I. Globalization, Structural Change and Political Realignment: Implications for Women's Health

2. Women's health in Europe: beyond epidemiology? Carol Thomas and Jan Rigby

3. Scales of justice: women, equity, and HIV in East Africa Susan Craddock

4. Women workers and the regulation of health and safety on the industrial periphery: the case of northern Thailand Jim Glassman

5. Looking back, looking around, looking forward: a woman's right to choose Patricia Gober and Mark W. Rosenberg

Part II. Providing and Gaining Access to Healthcare: Local Areas and Networks

6. Home care restructuring at work: the impact of policy transformation on women's labour Allison Williams

7. 'Thank God she's not sick': health and disciplinary practice among Salvadoran women in northern New Jersey Caroline Kerner, Adrian J. Bailey, Alison Mountz, Ines Miyares and Richard A. Wright

8. Babies and borderlands: factors that influence Sonoran woman's decision to seek prenatal care in southern Arizona Cynthia Pope

9. Differing access to social networks: rural and urban women in India with reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases Suprabha Tripathi

10. Walking the talk: research partnerships in women's business in Australia Lenore Manderson, Maureen Kirk and Elizabeth Hoban

Part III. Embodied Health and Illness, Perceptions and Place

11. 'The baby is turning': child-bearing in Wanigela. Oro province, Papua New Guinea Yvonne Underhill-Sem

12. Fear and trembling in the mall: women, agoraphobia and body boundaries Joyce Davidson

13. Material bodies precariously positioned: women embodying chronic illness in the workplace Pamela Moss and Isabel Dyck

14. The beauty of health: locating young women's health and appearance Andrea Litva, Kay Peggs and Graham Moon

15. Women in their place: gender and perceptions of neighbourhoods and health in the west of Scotland Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre