Handbook on Gender and Health (Hardcover) by Jasmine Gideon

Hard cover. Pages: 640. 640 p. International Handbooks on Gender Series . Intended for college/higher education audience. This Handbook brings together a groundbreaking collection of chapters that uses a gender lens to explore health health care and health policy in both the Global South and North. Empirical evidence is drawn from a variety of different settings and points to the many ways in which the gendered dimensions of health have become reworked across the globe. This collection includes insightful contributions from 56 leading authorities from Africa the Americas Asia Europe and the Middle East offering a wealth of knowledge theoretical reflection and empirical detail on the essential elements surrounding gender and health. Topics covered include theoretical approaches to understanding gender and health migration sexuality ageing masculinities climate change and sexual and reproductive rights. Split into four thematic sections this book strives to develop a clear road map towards achieving gender justice in health. The Handbook on Gender and Health will be an important resource for researchers students and instructors of health policy and family and gender studies. Contributors include: G. Alvarez Minte E. Ansoleaga Moreno L. Artazcoz A.-E. Birn R.A. Burgess A. Coates I. Cortes-Franch S. Del Pino K. Devries X. Diaz Berr L. Doyal K. Elzein V. Escriba-Aguir B. Eveslage C. Ewig J. Gideon J. Goncalves Martin B. Gough H. Grundlingh M. Gutmann R.R. Habib M.C. Inhorn D. Johnston D.M. Kamuya L. Knight M. Koivusalo R. Kumar M. Leite J. Lyra E. MacPherson A.M. Cardarelli P. McDonough B. Medrado L.M. Morgan S.F. Murray J. Namakula L. Nunez Carrasco S. Payne E. Richards N. Richardson M. Richter S. Robertson M. Robinson J. Samuel S. Sexton J.A. Smith S. Smith D.L. Spitzer S.N. Ssali S. Theobald R. Tolhurst J. Vearey P. Vero-Sanso S. Witter N. Younes F. Zalwango