Global Perspectives On Women S Sexual And Reproductive Health Across The Lifecourse

Author : Shonali Choudhury,Jennifer Toller Erausquin,Mellissa Withers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319604176

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Global Perspectives on Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Across the Lifecourse by Shonali Choudhury,Jennifer Toller Erausquin,Mellissa Withers Pdf

This expansive survey spotlights pervasive issues affecting girls’ and women’s sexual and reproductive health across the lifecourse. Research from diverse countries around the world analyzes the complex relationships among biological, psychological, sociocultural, and economic issues—particularly in terms of inequities—as they shape women’s lives. Major challenges and possibilities for intervention are examined in their national context and with their global implications, including child marriage/motherhood, reproductive care and access, fertility, childbearing, contraception, abortion, HIV/STIs, gender-based violence, sexual pleasure, and menopause. In these forceful dispatches, a consistent human rights perspective emphasizes women’s control, autonomy, and agency in all stages of their lives. A sampling of topics covered: Girl child marriage: a persistent global women’s health and human rights violation Investigating challenges and resilience among women living with obstetric fistula in Kenya A qualitative exploration of mainstream and social media reflections on abortion A continuum of severity of sexual intimate partner violence among black women in the United States Economic empowerment to improve sexual and reproductive health among women and girls Summarizing an interdisciplinary field on research and practical levels, Global Perspectives on Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Across the Lifecourse will be an invaluable text for undergraduate and graduate courses in a wide range of fields, including public health, global health, women’s studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, and human rights.

Author : Jane M. Ussher,Joan C. Chrisler,Janette Perz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351035613

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Routledge International Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health by Jane M. Ussher,Joan C. Chrisler,Janette Perz Pdf

The Routledge International Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health is the authoritative reference work on important, leading-edge developments in the domains of women’s sexual and reproductive health. The handbook adopts a life-cycle approach to examine key milestones and events in women’s sexual and reproductive health. Contributors drawn from a range of disciplines, including psychology, medicine, nursing and midwifery, sociology, public health, women’s studies, and indigenous studies, explore issues through three main lenses: the biopsychosocial model feminist perspectives international, multidisciplinary perspectives that acknowledge the intersection of identities in women’s lives. The handbook presents an authoritative review of the field, with a focus on state-of-the-art work, encouraging future research and policy development in women’s sexual and reproductive health. Finally, the handbook will inform health care providers about the latest research and clinical developments, including women’s experiences of both normal and abnormal sexual and reproductive functions. Drawing upon international expertise from leading academics and clinicians in the field, this is essential reading for scholars and students interested in women’s reproductive health.

Author : Paul Van Look,Kristian Heggenhougen,Stella R. Quah
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780123850096

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Sexual and Reproductive Health by Paul Van Look,Kristian Heggenhougen,Stella R. Quah Pdf

"This volume presents the highlights of current global thinking about sexual and reproductive health. Major changes have taken place in the last 15 years in the way decision-makers think about the subject and the manner in which programmes deliver comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services. The turning point was the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. ICPD was a watershed for several reasons. First, more than in any of the preceding United Nations population conferences, the issue of population was clearly placed as being central to sustainable development. Second, the narrow focus on population growth ("the population bomb") which had been a neo-Malthusian concern and preoccupation ever since the Club of Rome published its 1972 report Limits to Growth, was replaced by the comprehensive concept of (sexual and) reproductive health. Third, and linked to the definition and introduction of the reproductive health concept, was the strong call for a paradigm shift away from a policy environment driven by demographic considerations (sometimes to the point of using coercion in family planning services in order to reach demographic targets) to an environment that recognized the right of individuals to make their own choices. And, last but not least, ICPD as well as the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) held the following year in Beijing, People's Republic of China, strongly emphasized that the rights of women and men to good sexual and reproductive health are firmly grounded in universal human rights"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jill Gay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429965005

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The Health Of Women by Jill Gay Pdf

This book provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive review of the many factors that affect women’s health, ranging from low socioeconomic status and the impact of the debt crisis to more direct medical determinants, such as poor nutrition, hemorrhage, eclampsia, and infection. At stake are the unnecessary and preventable deaths of women and girls around the globe. The contributors assess the reduced quality of life for women and the often unacknowledged contributions of women and girls as the backbone of production in both developing and developed countries. Synthesizing perspectives of policymakers and practitioners, researchers and scholars, The Health of Women urges major new initiatives to understand and improve women’s health, taking into account biological elements such as the life cycle of women as well as cultural constraints and socioeconomic realities.

Author : Gisele Maynard-Tucker
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739192337

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Rural Women's Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy by Gisele Maynard-Tucker Pdf

Rural Women’s Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy examines the intimate lives of women in the developing world, their sexuality, and views on family planning and gender inequality. Providing insights on cultural traditions and understanding of modern medicine, it is essential for public health and anthropology scholars and practitioners.

Author : Ivana Krstić,Marco Evola,Maria Isabel Ribes Moreno
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783031134593

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Legal Issues of International Law from a Gender Perspective by Ivana Krstić,Marco Evola,Maria Isabel Ribes Moreno Pdf

This book offers a new perspective on international law, which was, for centuries, male-dominant and gender-blind. However, this gender blindness has led to many injustices, the failure to recognize certain rights, and to impunity for serious crimes. The book examines the development of gender perspectives in various branches of international law, while also discussing and explaining certain universal standards. However, particular attention is paid to the European human rights system. Accordingly, the book provides detailed explanations of the EU’s external policies in relation to sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Also, there is a special focus on the relevant jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to gender and sexual orientation, female reproduction, and sexuality. The authors explain not only the importance of an adequate legal framework for combating gender inequality but also the detrimental effects of deeply rooted gender stereotypes and prejudices. Subsequently, the development of particular branches is presented, such as a gender-sensitive approach to the prevention of war crimes, gender perspectives in refugee law, and the evolution of gender-sensitive environmental law. In addition, the problematic situation of discrimination in the workplace is addressed from various perspectives. Many discussions, especially among EU member states, are reserved for the issue of women’s participation in managerial boards, while the growing awareness of gender equality in international trade agreements represents another interesting topic. Lastly, the book offers a historical perspective on the development of international law in the interwar period, with a particular focus on the situation in Yugoslavia. The book critically reconsiders the dominant molds of legal knowledge and presents innovative gender-sensitive and gender-competent insights on a variety of issues in international law, in order to introduce readers to new research topics relevant to gender equality and to stimulate the development of an international legal and institutional framework for achieving greater gender equality in practice. The collection of essays presented here will be of interest to all those working in the field of international law, as well as students and academics looking to broaden and deepen their research on a range of issues in international law from gender perspectives.

Author : Maria Tanyag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : 0197676340

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The Global Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health by Maria Tanyag Pdf

"This book examines everyday inequalities in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and the failure to address them in crisis settings from a feminist international relations (IR) perspective. Drawing on a richer definition of bodily autonomy, it employs a nested and multi-scalar approach to trace the compounding of restrictions to SRHR with crisis-specific risks and violence from the household, community, state and global levels. Its central argument is that restrictions to SRHR are not incidental but rather integral to the reproduction of a neoliberal logic of depletion. Bodily autonomy is recognised not as a collateral issue where patriarchal bargains need to be made in order to advance feminism in global agendas. But rather as its cornerstone which ties together all sites, forms and temporalities of gender equality together. This title includes new empirical evidence drawn from primary field research in the Philippines and analysis of wide-ranging secondary sources across conflict and disaster settings"--

Author : Tiina Vaittinen,Catia C. Confortini
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786611185

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Gender, Global Health, and Violence by Tiina Vaittinen,Catia C. Confortini Pdf

Beyond the metaphorical use of healthy society as a normative goal of Peace Research, there is little engagement in contemporary Peace Research with questions of global health. Simultaneously, critical feminist approaches to the intersections of different forms of violence and health are rare in Global Health literature. Bringing together feminist Peace Research and Global Health scholarships, this edited book aims to enrich both scholarly traditions. On the one hand, the book provides perspectives from feminist Peace Research that help us to understand and analyse different forms of violence in the gendered realm of global health. On the other hand, the variety of empirical cases analysed in the chapters widens the horizons of Peace Research, in its understanding of what it means to study violence, peace, and justice in everyday lives. The themes dealt in the chapters of the book vary from questions of reproductive health, to non-communicable (e.g. breast cancer) and communicable diseases (e.g. HIV/AIDS), war-time sexual violence, mental health, therapeutic justice, domestic violence, and ageing and dementia. This text will help students and researchers alike navigate Global Health through a feminist lens.

Author : Victoria Boydell,Katharine Dow
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800717336

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Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse by Victoria Boydell,Katharine Dow Pdf

This book presents a dialogue between scholars on different aspects of reproductive technologies. If we continue to work in disciplinary silos, reproductive studies is in danger of missing, and thereby reproducing, the kinds of power structures that shape reproductive life.

Author : Sue Wilkinson,Celia Kitzinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135340063

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Women And Health by Sue Wilkinson,Celia Kitzinger Pdf

this comprehensive volume provides a broad sample of contemporary British feminist work on women and health. It spans the disciplines of psychology, sociology, social policy, social anthropology and economics, and demonstrates the development of feminist theorizing and activism in these areas over the past decade. Topics include: global and national politics of women's health; the 'psychologization' of health: sexuality and AIDS; body image and pregnancy; reproductive technology; substance abuse; breast cancer; and the long-term health problems of women. Calling for a greater understanding of women and health, the contributors acknowledge the gender-based inequities of women's experiences and address the need for social and political change in order to improve the health and health care of women across the lifespan.

Author : Aasim Ur Rehman Ganie,Irtifa Mukhter,Aarif Hussain
Publisher : Clever Fox Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Emerging Social Work Debates by Aasim Ur Rehman Ganie,Irtifa Mukhter,Aarif Hussain Pdf

This book is primarily intended to serve as a guide for those who are interested in social work and contemporary issues. It is also hoped that it shall provide an insight to all interested readers in one or other way. This book is in fact an outgrowth of experiences of all those authors who are in social work field form the last several years. Keeping the current times in view, the book has been prepared with objective to provide orientation about the contemporary social work debates to all the students and those who are interested in taking up social work either as academic or professional career. We hope that this effort will take the readers of this book to new and interesting topics. The strength of this book lies in its structure and language which makes it easy and accessible to all readers to understand the contemporary social issues in simple ways. There is wealth of information and examples of contemporary social issues put forward by the contributors. The book presents a close and important picture of the world we live in and would enable readers to locate and compare the most important issues which are usually considered as social work challenges.

Author : Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong,Susan Markens,Miranda R. Waggoner
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787561717

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Reproduction, Health, and Medicine by Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong,Susan Markens,Miranda R. Waggoner Pdf

At a moment when reproduction is increasingly politicized, the volume explores the breadth of contemporary research on reproduction from the perspective of medical sociology, illuminating the lived experience of reproduction and offering insights to inform sociology and health policy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : New Age International Limited Publishers
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Birth control
ISBN : 8122409040

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Perspectives in Reproductive Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kaymarlin Govender,Nana K Poku
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780429870750

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Preventing HIV Among Young People in Southern and Eastern Africa by Kaymarlin Govender,Nana K Poku Pdf

This book provides an overview of the current epidemiology of the HIV epidemic among young people in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and examines the efforts to confront and reduce the high level of new HIV infections amongst young people. Taking a multi-dimensional approach to prevention, the contributors discuss the many challenges facing these efforts, in view of the slow progress in curbing the incidence of HIV amongst young people, focusing particularly on the structural and social drivers of HIV. Through an examination of these issues, chapters in this book provide valuable insights on how to mitigate HIV risk among young people and what can be regarded as the catalysts to mounting credible policy and programmatic responses required to achieve epidemic control in the region. The contributors draw on examples from a range of primary and secondary data sources to illustrate promising practices and challenges in HIV prevention, demonstrating links between conceptual approaches to prevention and lessons learnt from implementation projects in the region. Bringing together social scientists and public health experts who are actively engaged in finding effective solutions, the book discusses ‘which interventions works’, ‘why they work’, and the limitations and gaps in our knowledge to curb the pandemic amongst young people. As such it is an important read for researchers focusing on HIV/AIDS and public health. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/10.4324/9780429462818 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Joy D. Osofsky,Hiram E. Fitzgerald,Miri Keren,Kaija Puura
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Child development
ISBN : 9783031486272

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WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health by Joy D. Osofsky,Hiram E. Fitzgerald,Miri Keren,Kaija Puura Pdf

This book examines basic knowledge in the field of infant and early childhood mental health. It focuses on cognitive, social, and emotional development of infants and toddlers and examines different aspects of neurobiological development, including genes and epigenetics as well as biobehavioral synchrony. In addition, the book addresses parenting and caregiving issues, including attachment, parent-infant relationships, and high-risk factors (e.g., the effects of trauma on the infant-caregiver relationship, adolescent parenting, and parents with substance abuse disorders).Key areas of coverage include:Social-emotional and cognitive development during infancy and early childhood.Temperament in infants and toddlers.Neurobiological influences from infancy through early childhood.Parenting and caregiving of infants and toddlers.Reflective functioning, mentalization, and infant development.The WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Volume One, is a must-have reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and all related therapists and professionals in infancy and early child development, developmental psychology, pediatrics, child and adolescent psychiatry, clinical social work, public health and all related disciplines.