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

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ISBN: 9780415236072 | 041523607X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/18/2001

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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.

List of illustrations

viii

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

Why geographies of women's health?

(20)

Isabel Dyck

Nancy Davis Lewis

Sara McLafferty

PART I Globalization, structural change, and political realignment: implications for women's health

(84)

Women's health in Europe: beyond epidemiology?

(18)

Carol Thomas

Jan Rigby

Scales of justice: women, equity, and HIV in East Africa

(20)

Susan Craddock

Women workers and the regulation of health and safety on the industrial periphery: the case of Northern Thailand

(27)

Jim Glassman

Looking back, looking around, looking forward: a woman's right to choose

(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

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