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Women's Health Movements

A Global Force for Change

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Women Organizing: Activism Worldwide

    • Meredeth Turshen
    Pages 1-33
  3. The Global Context

    • Meredeth Turshen
    Pages 34-60
  4. The Sexual Politics of Violence against Women

    • Meredeth Turshen
    Pages 120-153
  5. Women’s Reproductive Rights

    • Meredeth Turshen
    Pages 154-190
  6. Toward a New Universalism

    • Meredeth Turshen
    Pages 191-219
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 220-259

About this book

This is an introduction to the women's health movements and what is being accomplished by women organizing to achieve better health care around the world.

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"This book is a major contribution to the study of women's health movements in a global context...a source of inspiration for activist scholars. It is accessible and engaging reading, well researched, and highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate students in political science, public policy, and women's studies; human rights activists and health care providers and practitioners....Highly recommended." - Choice"This book is a major contribution to the literature on women's health and health movements. Impressive in its global scope and solidly grounded in political economy, it will be extremely useful in undergraduate and graduate courses in health, women's studies, development studies, and social movements. Written in a clear and accessible manner, it is also an important resource for national and transnational activism on women's health and human rights." - Betsy Hartmann, Director of the Population and Development Program, Hampshire College, and author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control

About the author

MEREDETH TURSHEN is Professor of Public Policy, Rutgers University, USA. She is author of The Aftermath in Post-Conflict Transformation and What Women do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa (Zed Books).

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