Global Prescriptions - Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack

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Auteur(s) : Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack

Editeur : Bloomsbury 3pl

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 31/07/2003

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 322.0

Nombre de livres : 1

Expédition : 860

ISBN : 9781842770078

Résumé :

List of Acronyms
Foreword - Thandika Mkandawire, director of UNRISD
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Transnationalizing Women's Health Movements
2. The UN Conferences at Sites of Discursive Struggle
3. HIV/AIDs and the Human Right to Health
4. Managing Health Under Global Capitalism
5. Implementing International Norms at the National Level: Women's Health NGOs in the Firing Line
6. Conclusion: Reflections on Global Governance and Transnational Feminist Movements in an Era of Infinite War
Bibliography
Index

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Biographie:

ROSALIND POLLACK PETCHESKY is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Co-author of Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives across Countries and Cultures, she is the founder and past international coordinator of the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRRAG) and a MacArthur Fellow. Her recent response to 9.11, Phantom Towers, has had an extraordinary impact, being published in a large number of print and media sites in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and India. Professor Petchesky has long been active in women's, social justice and peace efforts and is a board member of the Women's Environment and Development Organization and the international journal, Reproductive Health Matters.
ROSALIND POLLACK PETCHESKY is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Co-author of Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives across Countries and Cultures, she is the founder and past international coordinator of the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRRAG) and a MacArthur Fellow. Her recent response to 9.11, Phantom Towers, has had an extraordinary impact, being published in a large number of print and media sites in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and India. Professor Petchesky has long been active in women's, social justice and peace efforts and is a board member of the Women's Environment and Development Organization and the international journal, Reproductive Health Matters.

Sommaire:

Gita Sen is Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health, and was until recently Professor of Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. She has been for many years a feminist analyst, activist and advocate on the political economy of globalization, and on sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is a member of DAWN's Executive Committee.

Marina Durano was a member of DAWN's Executive Committee from 2008 to 2011, working on gender issues in financing for development, including the examination of gender issues in international trade policies. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Women's Development Research Centre (KANITA) of the Universiti Sains Malaysia, and is now an Assistant Professor at the Asian Center at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Manchester.