Geographies of Women's Health: Place, Diversity and Difference

by Davis Lewis,Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780415236072
• ISBN10: 041523607X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world. 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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii
Notes on contributors	x
Acknowledgments	xv
Why geographies of women's health?	1	(20)
Isabel Dyck
Nancy Davis Lewis
Sara McLafferty
PART I Globalization, structural change, and political realignment: implications for women's health	21	(84)
Women's health in Europe: beyond epidemiology?	23	(18)
Carol Thomas
Jan Rigby
Scales of justice: women, equity, and HIV in East Africa	41	(20)
Susan Craddock
Women workers and the regulation of health and safety on the industrial periphery: the case of Northern Thailand	61	(27)
Jim Glassman
Looking back, looking around, looking forward: a woman's right to choose	88	(17)
Patricia Gober
Mark W. Rosenberg
PART II Providing and gaining access to health care: local areas and networks	105	(90)
Home care restructuring at work: the impact of policy transformation on women's labor	107	(20)
Allison Williams
``Thank God She's not sick'': health and disciplinary practice among Salvadoran women in northern New Jersey	127	(16)
Caroline Kerner
Adrian J. Bailey
Alison Mountz
Ines Miyares
Richard A. Wright
Babies and borderlands: factors that influence Sonoran women's decision to seek prenatal care in southern Arizona	143	(16)
Cynthia Pope
Differing access to social networks: rural and urban women in India with reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases	159	(18)
Suprabha (Sue) Tripathi
Walking the talk: research partnerships in women's business in Australia	177	(18)
Lenore Manderson
Maureen Kirk
Elizabeth Hoban
PART III Embodied health and illness, perceptions, and place	195	(87)
``The baby is turning'': child-bearing in Wanigela, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea	197	(16)
Yvonne Underhill-Sem
Fear and trembling in the mall: women, agoraphobia, and body boundaries	213	(18)
Joyce Davidson
Material bodies precariously positioned: women embodying chronic illness in the workplace	231	(17)
Pamela Moss
Isabel Dyck
The beauty of health: locating young women's health and appearance	248	(17)
Andrea Litva
Kay Peggs
Graham Moon
Women in their place: gender and perceptions of neighborhoods and health in the West of Scotland	265	(17)
Anne Ellaway
Sally Macintyre
Index	282