Research Agenda for Gender and Health

Edited by Jasmine Gideon, Professor of Global Health and Development, School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, UK and Sarah Hawkes, Department of Global Population Health, Monash University, Malaysia and former Professor of Global Public Health, University College London, UK

‘The editors must be congratulated for their excellent efforts in bringing together different scholars and practitioners to generate professionally important and practically relevant perspectives on gender and health, and for concise presentation on how they reached on current understanding of the subject and topics before moving on to the future agendas. The exhaustive references at the end of each chapter provides a gateway to global knowledge and resources for researchers. Certainly, this volume reaches out and is useful to all the intended audience/readership, now and in future.’

• Contents1 Introduction: Gender and health – a futureresearch agenda 1Jasmine Gideon and Sarah Hawkes2 How did colonialism change our gender andour sexuality? The case of Indigenous Wixárikacommunities 21Jennie Gamlin, Maria Teresa Fernández Acevezand Paulina Ultreras Villagrana3 Gendered violence and health in ‘translocational’perspective: Brazilian women’s experiences in Riode Janeiro and London 41Cathy McIlwaine and Moniza Rizzini Ansari4 Gender, work, development and the politics/practices of reproductive health in a neo-liberaleconomy 69Darshi Thoradeniya, Ramya Kumar andAnne-Emanuelle Birn5 Gender, health and technology: The rise offemtech - periods, profit and power 87Catriona McMillan6 Gender and the commercial determinants of health 107Sarah Hill7 Private financing in health – what does this meanfor gender equality? 123Jasmine Gideon and Camila Gianella8 What does ‘sexual orientation conversion therapy’signify? Examining the political abuse of medicinein the context of heterosexism under threat 145Volkan Yilmaz9 Gender and global health governance 167Julia Smith and Clare Wenham