Women's empowerment and global health : a twenty-first-century agenda / edited by Shari L. Dworkin, Monica Gandhi, and Paige Passano.

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English
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  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
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x, 335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    "What is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? Despite the rise of a human rights-based approach to women's health and increasing awareness of the synergies between women's health and empowerment, a lack of consensus remains as to how to measure empowerment and successfully intervene in ways that improve health. Women's Empowerment and Global Health provides thirteen detailed, multidisciplinary case studies from across the globe and through the course of a woman's life to show how science and advocacy can be creatively merged to enhance the agency and status of women. Accompanying short videos provide background about programs on the ground in India, the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Women's Empowerment and Global Health explores the promises and limits of programmatic, scientific, and rights-based work in real-world settings and 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 fulfilling the right to health."--Provided by publisher.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Sociocultural, educational, and health service interventions as tools of empowerment. Introduction / Dallas Swendeman and Paula Tavrow ; Taking services to the doorstep : providing rural Indian women greater control over their fertility / Pallavi Gupta, Kirti Iyengar, and Sharad Iyengar ; Obstetric fistula in Kenya : a holistic model of outreach, treatment, and reintegration / Lindsey Pollaczek, Paula Tavrow, and Habibi Mohamed ; Pathways to choice : delaying age of marriage through girls' education in northern Nigeria / Daniel Perlman [and others] ; Early empowerment : the evolution and practice of girls' "boot camps" in Kenya and Haiti / Karen Austrian, Judith Bruce, and M. Catherine Maternowska ; Empowerment and HIV risk reduction among sex workers in Bangladesh / Victor Robinson, Theresa Y. Hwang, and Elisa Martínez ; Gender roles in U.S. women with HIV : intersection with psychological and physical health outcomes / Leslie R. Brody [and others] ; Examining the impact of a masculinities-based HIV prevention and antiviolence program in Limpopo and Eastern Cape, South Africa / Shari L. Dworkin [and others]
    • Structural (legal/policy, economic) interventions as tools of empowerment. Introduction / Shelly Grabe [and others] ; Empowering adolescent girls and women for improved sexual health in Zimbabwe : lessons learned from a combined livelihoods and life skills intervention (SHAZ!) / Megan S. Dunbar and Imelda Mudekunye-Mahaka ; Is microfinance coupled with gender training empowering for women? Lessons from the IMAGE process evaluation in rural South Africa / Abigail M. Hatcher [and others] ; Older U.S. women's economic security, health, and empowerment : the fight against opponents of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid / Carroll L. Estes ; Women's health and empowerment after the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City / Gustavo Ortiz Millán ; Impact of a grassroots property rights program on women's empowerment in rural Kenya / Kate Grünke-Horton and Shari L. Dworkin ; Land tenure and women's empowerment and health : a programmatic evaluation of structural change in Nicaragua / Shelly Grabe, Anjali Dutt, and Carlos Arenas
    • Conclusions : a twenty-first-century agenda for women's empowerment and health / Shari L. Dworkin and Lara Stemple.
    ISBN
    • 9780520272873 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 0520272870 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 9780520272880 ((paperback : alkaline paper))
    • 0520272889 ((paperback : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2016030545
    OCLC
    953422730
    Other standard number
    • 40026642342
    • 99973361936
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