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1 online resource (xv, 276 pages). |
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text file |
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Oxford studies in gender and international relations
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Oxford studies in gender and international relations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half title -- Series -- Feminist global health security -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms -- 1. Introduction: Where are the women? -- 2. Theorizing feminist health security -- 3. The Zika virus -- 4. Zika and in/visibility -- 5. Clean your house and don't get pregnant: reproduction and the state -- 6. Violence and everyday crises -- 7. Conclusion: Making feminist global health security -- Epilogue: COVID-19 -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
"Global health security, focused on a firefighting short-term response efforts fail to consider the differential impacts of outbreaks on women. For example, the policy response to the Zika outbreak centred on limiting the spread of the vector through civic participation and asking women to defer pregnancy. Both actions are inherently gendered and reveal a distinct lack of consideration of the everyday lives of women. These policies placed women in a position whereby were blamed if they had a child born with Congenital Zika Syndrome, and at the same time governments required women to undertake invisible labour for vector control. What does this tell us about the role of women in global health security? This feminist critique of the Zika outbreak, argues that global health security has thus far lacked a substantive feminist engagement, with the result that the very policies created to manage an outbreak of disease disproportionately fail to protect women. Women are both differentially infected and affected by epidemics. Yet, the dominant policy narrative of global health security has created pathways which focus on protecting the international spread of disease to state economies, rather than protecting those who are most at risk. As such, the state-based structure of global health security provides the fault-line for global health security and women. This book highlights the ways in which women are disadvantaged by global health security policy, through engagement with feminist security studies concepts of visibility; social and stratified reproduction; intersectionality; and structural violence. It argues that it was no coincidence that poor, black women living in low quality housing were the most affected by the Zika outbreak and will continue to be so, until global health security is gender mainstreamed. More broadly, I ask what would global health policy look like if it were to take gender seriously, and how would this impact global disease control sustainability?"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user (applies to both Oxford and EBSCO editions) |
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World health.
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World health. |
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Women -- Health and hygiene. |
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Medical policy.
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Medical policy. |
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Women -- Diseases -- Prevention.
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Women -- Diseases -- Prevention. |
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Women -- Diseases. |
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Equality -- Health aspects.
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Equality -- Health aspects. |
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Women -- Health. |
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wenham, Clare. Feminist global health security New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] 9780197556931 (DLC) 2020048717 (OCoLC) 1221017858 |
| ISBN |
0197556949 electronic book |
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9780197556962 electronic book |
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0197556965 electronic book |
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9780197556955 electronic book |
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0197556957 electronic book |
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9780197556948 (electronic book) |
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9780197556931 hardcover |
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