Chapter 1: Women’s Global Health, Norms and State Policies
Lyn Boyd-Judson and Patrick James
Chapter 2: Gender Equity—United Nations
Closing the Gender Gap in Global Health: Norms, International Aid,
and Outcomes for Women’s Health
Debra L. DeLaet
Chapter 3: Prostitution and Trafficking—Sweden, Netherlands, and
Germany
Social Norms and Policies on Prostitution and Trafficking: Swedish,
Dutch, and German Evidence
Nadejda Marinova and Patrick James
Chapter 4: Abortion Legality—Mozambique and Tanzania
Morality, Legality, and Health: The Influence of the Grounds of
Abortion Legality on Abortion-Related Health Issues
Laura Sjoberg
Chapter 5: Global Gag Rule on Abortion Speech—United States
US Family Planning Policy and Domestic Divisions: Implications for
Women’s Reproductive Health
Karen L. Baird
Chapter 6: Breastfeeding and the Role of the State—Iran
State Policies Restricting Access to Infant Formula: Ethics and
Impact on Women’s and Children’s Health
Leah R. Perlman and Kathryn Roberts
Chapter 7: Government Cash Incentives for Institutional
Deliveries—India
Ethics and Global Health Promotion: The Government-Sponsored Janani
Suraksha Yojana Maternal Health Financing Scheme in India
Katherine Ba-Thike and Ayushi Gummadi
Chapter 8: Expanding Dimensions of Women’s Health—Sri Lanka
‘Beyond Reproduction’: A New Shift in Women’s Health in Sri
Lanka?
Darshi Thoradeniya
Chapter 9: What Have We Learned?
Patrick James and Lyn Boyd-Judson
Lyn Boyd-Judson is director of the Levan Institute for Humanities
and Ethics at the University of Southern California.
Patrick James is Dornsife Dean’s Professor of International
Relations and director of the Center for International Studies at
the University of Southern California.
This book, based on papers presented at a conference held at the
University of Southern California, The Ethics of State Involvement
in Women's Health, explores women’s global health from a
multidimensional, transnational perspective. Grounded in
previous ethnographic research, the book analyzes the topic from a
norms and state policy viewpoint, as the subtitle indicates.
Case materials and examples are derived from the United
Nations organization, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, Mozambique,
Tanzania, the US, Iran, India, and Sri Lanka. Key subjects
addressed in the nine chapters include a definition of women’s
global health, women’s rights, the role and power of women, access
to resources, and politics, laws, and governance. The volume
is eclectic in its approach to this subject, with contributions
from scholars in political science, anthropology, ethics, women’s
studies, and international studies. The authors make
suggestions for an expanded, comprehensive research agenda that
underscores the importance of facilitating positive norms and state
policies to advance the health of women worldwide.
Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through
professionals/practitioners.
*CHOICE*
This new book, Women’s Global Health, co-edited by Boyd-Judson and
James, fills an important niche in the expanding women’s health and
politics literature. First, it examines the feedback loop between
international norms and domestic policies, and includes some
pathbreaking new studies on countries not usually included in
comparative texts from Asia and Africa. This type of study has been
needed for a long time and will be useful to students and
practitioners at many levels.
*Melissa Haussman, Professor of Political Science, Carleton
University*
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