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xv, 276 pages ; 25 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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University and college faculty members lcdgt |
| Series |
Oxford studies in gender and international relations series |
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Oxford studies in gender and international relations.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-265) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
When Zika made headlines in 2016, images of women cradling babies affected with microcephaly spread across the world. But, as this book aruges, whilst this outbreak was about women and babies, it also highlighted the lack of gendered considerations in global health security. The policy response to Zika focused on protecting states, seeking to limit the spread of the virus through domestic and civic cleaning to remove mosquitoes and by asking women to defer pregnancy. Both of these actions are inherently gendered, placing the burden of responsibility for performing health security, and in turn stemming the spread of disease and protecting the state, on women. By taking Zika as its primary case but also touching on COVID-19, Feminist Global Health Security asks what the policy response to disease outbreaks tells us about the role of women in global health security. Beyond raising questions of gender equity, Clare Wenham highlights the ways in which women are disadvantaged by global health security policy. Wenhan argues that global health security in general 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 has biological pre-disposition and social vulnerability to contracting a number of infectious diseases. yet, the dominant gender-blind policy narrative of global health security has created pathways which focus on protecting the international spread of disease and the global econom ic system, rather than protecting those who are most likely to be affected. Not only this, but global health security further compounds existing gender inequalities in many states. As such, the state-based structure of global health security provides the fault line for meaningful engagement with women. As many news reports have made clear during COVID, many are waking up to the secondary effects of infectious disease control policy on women. However, we have yet to see this reflected in global health policy, and so women remain disadvantaged by health emergencies. -- From dust jacket. |
| Subject |
World health.
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Women -- Health.
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Medical policy.
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Women -- Diseases -- Prevention.
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Equality -- Health aspects.
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Equality -- Health aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00914463
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Medical policy. (OCoLC)fst01014505
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Women -- Diseases -- Prevention.
(OCoLC)fst01176651
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Women -- Health.
(OCoLC)fst01176757
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World health. (OCoLC)fst01181338
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| ISBN |
9780197556931 hardcover |
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0197556930 hardcover |
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9780197556955 electronic publication |
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