Handbook on Gender and Health

Edited by Jasmine Gideon, Professor of Global Health and Development, School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

'Gender, one of the most misunderstood but important determinants of health, is expertly analysed, reviewed and critiqued in this invaluable book. Jasmine Gideon and her co-authors deliver a comprehensive analysis of the meanings of both gender and health, and discuss both contemporary and more recent historical debates about the relationship between the two. With voices from the global north and south, and from both men and women, this book will be invaluable reading for anyone (academics, practitioners, advocates, activists) concerned with ensuring the links between gender and health - whether as determinant, outcome, or system response - are fully acknowledged, understood and addressed in order to improve health outcomes for everyone.'

• Contents:PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Gender and Health: An IntroductionJasmine Gideon PART II GENDER, HEALTH AND PUBLIC POLICY 2. Agenda-Setting in Women’s Health: Critical Analysis of a Quarter Century of Paradigm Shifts in International and Global HealthRamya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Peggy Mcdonough3. Gender, Health and Climate ChangeSarah Payne4. Towards a New Political Agenda for Indigenous Women’s Health in Latin America in the Post 2015 EraAnna Coates and Sandra Del Pino5. Dangerous Discourses? Silencing Women Within ‘Global Mental Health’ PracticeRochelle Ann Burgess6. Cost-Cutting, Coproduction and Cash Transfers: Neoliberal Policy, Health and GenderDeborah Johnston7. Applying a Genders Lens to Public Health Discourses on Men’s HealthJames A. Smith, Noel Richardson and Steve Robertson8. Men, ‘Masculinity’ and Mental Health: Critical ReflectionsBrendan Gough, Steve Robertson and Mark Robinson9. Stigmatised, Marginalised and Overlooked: Health, Later Life and Gender in India and the United KingdomPenny Vera-SansoPART III GENDER, WORK AND HEALTH 10. Gender, Work and Health: A Step Forward in Women’s Occupational HealthLucía Artazcoz, Imma Cortès-Franch and Vicenta Escribà-Agüir11. Intersectionality: The Value for Occupational Health ResearchRima R. Habib, Kareem Elzein and Nadia Younes 12. Gendered Work Violence Issues and Mental Health Among Chilean Women WorkersElisa Ansoleaga Moreno, Ximena Díaz Berr and Amalia Mauro CardarelliPART IV GENDER, MIGRATION AND HEALTH 13. Migration, Gender and HealthLorena Núñez Carrasco14. Migration and Health in a Chinese Context: Examining the Linkages Through a Gender LensJasmine Gideon 15. Engendered Movements: Migration, Gender, and Health in a Globalised WorldDenise L. Spitzer16. Migration and Sex Work in South Africa: Key Concerns for Gender and HealthMarlise Richter and Jo VeareyPART V GENDER AND HEALTH SYSTEMS 17. Gender Equity and the Politics of Health Sector Reform: Overcoming Policy Legacies, Forming Epistemic Communities Christina Ewig18. Gender and Commercialization of Health Care Meri Koivusalo and Sarah Sexton 19. Commercialization in Maternity Care: Uncovering Trends in the Contemporary Healthcare Economy Susan F. Murray20. Building Post Conflict Health Systems: A Gender Analysis from Northern UgandaSarah N. Ssali, Sally Theobald, Justine Namakula and Sophie Witter21. Reproductive Health Care and Indigenous Peoples in VenezuelaJohanna Gonçalves MartínPART VI HOUSEHOLDS, HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE 22. Cycles of Violence in Gendered Social Contexts: Why Does Child Maltreatment Lead to Increased Risk of Intimate Partner Violence in Adulthood? Karen Devries, Heidi Grundlingh and Louise Knight 23. Capacities to Exercise Strategic Decision-Making Agency: Exploring the Gendered Production of Health Within Intimate Partnerships and HouseholdsRachel Tolhurst, Esther Richards, Eleanor Macpherson, Dorcas M. Kamuya, Flavia Zalwango and Sally TheobaldPART VII GENDER, SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND HEALTH 24. Citizen Monitoring: Promoting Health Rights Among Socially Excluded Women in Andean PeruJeannie Samuel25. Emergent Masculinities, Men’s Health, and the Movember MovementSara Smith and Marcia C. InhornPART VIII GENDER, HEALTH, SEXUALITY AND RIGHTS 26. Men’s Sexual Health and DestinyMatthew Gutmann27. Claiming Rosa Parks: Conservative Catholic Bids for “Rights” in Contemporary Latin AmericaLynn M. Morgan28. Conservative Backlashes to Women’s Bodily Integrity in Latin America; The Case of ChileGabriela Alvarez Minte29. Deconstructing Human Rights-Based Discourses: The Case of Women's Right to Health and Health Sector Reforms in BrazilMarianna Leite30. Men, Masculinities and Health in Brazil: A Feminist CritiqueJorge Lyra and Benedito Medrado 31. Sexual Health or Rights? USAID-Funded HIV/AIDS Interventions for Key Populations in GhanaBenjamin Eveslage32. Positive Women Managing Reproduction in the HIV PandemicLesley DoyalIndex