Geographies of Women's Health

This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world. The chapters work together in examining the complex layering of social, economic and political relations that frame women's health. The authors demonstrate that women's health needs to be understood 'in place' if gains are to be made in improving women's health and health care.

Sara McLafferty, Nancy Davis Lewis, Isabel Dyck

1. Why geographies of women's health? Isabel Dyck, Nancy Davis Lewis and Sara McLafferty Part I. Globalization, Structural Change and Political Realignment: Implications for Women's Health2. Women's health in Europe: beyond epidemiology? Carol Thomas and Jan Rigby 3. Scales of justice: women, equity, and HIV in East Africa Susan Craddock 4. Women workers and the regulation of health and safety on the industrial periphery: the case of northern Thailand Jim Glassman 5. Looking back, looking around, looking forward: a woman's right to choose Patricia Gober and Mark W. Rosenberg Part II. Providing and Gaining Access to Healthcare: Local Areas and Networks6. Home care restructuring at work: the impact of policy transformation on women's labour Allison Williams 7. 'Thank God she's not sick': health and disciplinary practice among Salvadoran women in northern New Jersey Caroline Kerner, Adrian J. Bailey, Alison Mountz, Ines Miyares and Richard A. Wright 8. Babies and borderlands: factors that influence Sonoran woman's decision to seek prenatal care in southern Arizona Cynthia Pope 9. Differing access to social networks: rural and urban women in India with reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases Suprabha Tripathi 10. Walking the talk: research partnerships in women's business in Australia Lenore Manderson, Maureen Kirk and Elizabeth Hoban Part III. Embodied Health and Illness, Perceptions and Place11. 'The baby is turning': child-bearing in Wanigela. Oro province, Papua New Guinea Yvonne Underhill-Sem 12. Fear and trembling in the mall: women, agoraphobia and body boundaries Joyce Davidson 13. Material bodies precariously positioned: women embodying chronic illness in the workplace Pamela Moss and Isabel Dyck 14. The beauty of health: locating young women's health and appearance Andrea Litva, Kay Peggs and Graham Moon 15. Women in their place: gender and perceptions of neighbourhoods and health in the west of Scotland Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre