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

by Lewis, Nancy Davis; Dyck, Isabel; McLafferty, Sara

• ISBN13: 9780203186022
• ISBN10: 0203186028
• Copyright: 2002-01-04
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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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