Beyond the metaphorical use of healthy society as a normative goal of Peace Research, there is little engagement in contemporary Peace Research with questions of global health. Simultaneously, critical feminist approaches to the intersections of different forms of violence and health are rare in Global Health literature. Bringing together feminist Peace Research and Global Health scholarships, this edited book aims to enrich both scholarly traditions. On the one hand, the book provides perspectives from feminist Peace Research that help us to understand and analyse different forms of violence in the gendered realm of global health. On the other hand, the variety of empirical cases analysed in the chapters widens the horizons of Peace Research, in its understanding of what it means to study violence, peace, and justice in everyday lives.
The themes dealt in the chapters of the book vary from questions of reproductive health, to non-communicable (e.g. breast cancer) and communicable diseases (e.g. HIV/AIDS), war-time sexual violence, mental health, therapeutic justice, domestic violence, and ageing and dementia.
This text will help students and researchers alike navigate Global Health through a feminist lens.
Author(s): Tiina Vaittinen, Catia C. Confortini
Series: Feminist Studies on Peace, Justice and Violence
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 304
City: London
Gender, Global Health and Violence
Contents
About the Editors
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
1 Introduction: Analysing Violences in Gendered Global Health
Part I: Revisiting Structural Violence
2 Replenishing Bodies and the Political Economy of SRHR in Crises and Emergencies
3 Rethinking Global Health Priorities from the Margins: Health Access and Medical Care Claims among Indonesia’s Waria
4 ‘I Cannot Know That Now I Have Cancer!’: A Structural Violence Perspective on Breast Cancer Detection in Uganda
5 HIV Politics and Structural Violence: Access to Treatment and Knowledge
Part II: Violences Entangled
6 Fighting Symbolic Violence through Artistic Encounters: Searching for Feminist Answers to the Question of Life and Death with Dementia
7 ¡Malas Madres, Malas Mujeres, Malas Todas!: The Incarceration of Women for Abortion-Related Crimes in Mexico
8 When Is It Torture? When Is It Rape? Discourses on Wartime Sexual Violence
Part III: Towards Peace and Justice in Global Health
9 Therapeutic Justice for Survivors of Human Rights Violations and Wartime Violence
10 Domestic Violence and Public Health: Beginning Steps for Creating More Just and Effective Community Responses
11 Exposed to Violence While Caring: From Caring Self-Protection to Global Health as Conflict Transformation
12 Conclusion: Violence and the Paradox of Global Health
Index
About the Authors
