Globalization, Women, And Health In The 21st Century

Has the march toward development approached its stated goal of reducing poverty and thereby increasing opportunities for women to receive adequate and appropriate health care? In this collection of eight reviews and a cluster of perspective pieces by leading experts, contributors describe how health care is gendered in theory and in practice, whether activists for women's health need philosophy and religion, what can be done about the linkage between trade liberalization and reproductive health work, what is happening in the gendering of resistance, how women's health and globalization work together as a critical social perspective, changing gender roles in the fight against HIV/AIDS, the effect of transnational tobacco companies, and the case for further research. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR