Bøger af Meredeth Turshen

This book follows the implications of the changing landscape for women's health and health care and their sexual and reproductive rights.

This work describes and analyzes the experience of women in African civil wars. A mixture of reportage, testimony and scholarship, it includes contributions from women in Chad, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa and Sudan.

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.

At all levels of government--from the international to the local--public policies are formulated mainly by men, but their impacts are felt, sometimes differently, by women, men, and children.

An examination of the progressive health tradition. This book discusses basic concepts and practices underlying conventional approaches to disease and offers an alternative framework based on the concept that health and illness are socially produced.

This book explores the persistence of violence in conflict zones in Africa using a political economy framework to situate violence against women and men in the context of criminal, corrupt, and violent economies. The political economy approach employs an analysis of violence on both edges of the spectrum¿a macro-economic analysis of violence against workers and a micro-political analysis of the violence in women¿s reproductive lives.