Women's Empowerment and Global Health : A Twenty-First-Century Agenda / Shari Dworkin, Monica Gandhi, Paige Passano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dworkin, Shari, Editor.

Gandhi, Monica, Editor.

Passano, Paige, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social conditions--Case studies.

Women.

Women's rights--Case studies.

Women's rights.

Women--Health and hygiene--Case studies.

Women--Political activity--Cross-cultural studies.

Medical policy--Case studies.

Medical policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? These are questions that the University of California Global Health Institute's (UCGHI) Center of Expertise (COE) on Women's Health, Gender, and Empowerment aimed to answer with this book. Since 2009 the COE has brought together a multidisciplinary network of experts from across the University of California (UC) campuses and departments, along with their global partners, to advance research and education on what has become a capstone theme in the global health and development agenda: women's and girls' empowerment and health. Women's Empowerment and Global Health demonstrates the outcomes of COE's commitment to advance pedagogy and present the work of thought leaders in this domain. Despite the rise of a human rights-based approach to health and increasing awareness of the synergies between women's health and empowerment, a lack of consensus remains as to how to operationalize empowerment in ways that improve health. Women's Empowerment and Global Health presents thirteen multidisciplinary case studies that demonstrate how science and advocacy can be creatively merged to enhance the agency and status of girls and women. The book is organized into two sections, the first focused on sociocultural, educational, and health systems interventions, and the second on economic, policy, and structural interventions. Seven of the chapters are enriched by complementary videos that provide readers with context about programs in India, Kenya, the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Women's Empowerment and Global Health provides the next generation of researchers and practitioners, as well as students in global and public health, sociology, anthropology, women's studies, law, business, and medicine, with cutting-edge and inspirational examples of programs that point the way toward achieving women's equality and the positive outcome of empowerment on health.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Empowering Women for Health

Introduction

1. Taking Services to the Doorstep: Providing Rural Indian Women Greater Control over Their Fertility

2. Obstetric Fistula in Kenya: A Holistic Model of Outreach, Treatment, and Reintegration

3. Pathways to Choice: Delaying Age of Marriage through Girls' Education in Northern Nigeria

4. Early Empowerment: The Evolution and Practice of Girls' "Boot Camps" in Kenya and Haiti

5. Empowerment and HIV Risk Reduction among Sex Workers in Bangladesh

6. Gender Roles in U.S. Women with HIV: Intersection with Psychological and Physical Health Outcomes

7. Examining the Impact of a Masculinities-Based HIV Prevention and Antiviolence Program in Limpopo and Eastern Cape, South Africa

8. Empowering Adolescent Girls and Women for Improved Sexual Health in Zimbabwe: Lessons Learned from a Combined Livelihoods and Life Skills Intervention (SHAZ!)

9. Is Microfinance Coupled with Gender Training Empowering for Women? Lessons from the IMAGE Process Evaluation in Rural South Africa

10. Older U.S. Women's Economic Security, Health, and Empowerment: The Fight against Opponents of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid

11. Women's Health and Empowerment after the Decriminalization of Abortion in Mexico City

12. Impact of a Grassroots Property Rights Program on Women's Empowerment in Rural Kenya

13. Land Tenure and Women's Empowerment and Health: A Programmatic Evaluation of Structural Change in Nicaragua

Conclusions: A Twenty-First-Century Agenda for Women's Empowerment and Health

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520962729

0520962729

OCLC:

961058791