Geographies of Womens Health
Around the globe, environmental and social transformations are reshaping womens mental and physical health experiences, their access to health care services, and their roles in care giving.
This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender, and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world. The chapters work together in examining the complex layering of social, economic, and political relations that frame womens health. The authors demonstrate that womens health needs to be understood in place if gains are to be made in improving womens health and health care. Policy implications are woven throughout as contributors explore the close connections between policy structures, access to health and health care resources, and modes of service delivery. What happens in the offices of government can have profound influences on womens ability to create and sustain healthy lives.
The contributors use both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, representing the many lenses now being employed in understanding the health of women. Many chapters use women-centered research strategies and draw on feminist theory in explicating the links between health and place. What is significant in these accounts is that women are rarely best viewed as victims but as women exploring and using active strategies in managing health and illness and accessing both formal and informal health care systems.
Isabel Dyck is a social geographer and Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of British Columbia. Her research interests include feminist analyses of the work experiences of women with chronic illness and health care access for immigrant and minority group women.
Nancy Davis Lewis is Associate Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii. Her research explores a wide range of health issues from human ecology to the health transition.
Sara McLafferty is Professor of Geography at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Her research has explored geographic inequalities in health and access to health care in cities and the use of spatial analysis methods in examining these issues.
Routledge international studies of women and place
Series editors: Janet Henshall Momsen and Janice Monk
1 Gender, Migration and Domestic Service
Edited by Janet Henshall Momsen
2 Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific
Edited by Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Peggy Teo and Shirlena Huang
3 Geographies of Womens Health
Edited by Isabel Dyck, Nancy Davis Lewis and Sara McLafferty
4 Gender, Migration and the Dual Career Household
Irene Hardill
Also available from Routledge:
Full Circles: Geographies of Women over the Life Course
Edited by Cindi Katz and Janet Monk
Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America
Edited by Sarah A Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood
Different Places, Different Voices: Gender and Development in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Edited by Janet Momsen and Vivian Kinnaird
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain
Nicky Gregson and Michelle Lowe
Womens Voices from the Rainforest
Janet Gabriel Townsend
Gender, Work and Space
Susan Hanson and Geraldine Pratt
Women and the Israeli Occupation
Edited by Tamar Mayer
Feminism / Postmodernism / Development
Edited by Marianne H. Marchand and Jane L. Parpart
Women of the European Union: The Politics of Work and Daily Life
Edited by Janice Monk and Maria Dolors Garcia-Raomon
Who Will Mind the Baby? Geographies of Childcare and Working Mothers
Edited by Kim England
Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experience
Edited by Dianne Rocheleau, Esther Wangari and Barbara Thomas-Slayter
Women Divided: Gender, Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland
Rosemary Sales
Womens Lifeworlds: Womens Narratives on Shaping their Realities
Edited by Edith Sizoo
Gender, Planning and Human Rights
Edited by Tovi Fenster
Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identity in Guyana
Linda Peake and D. Alissa Trotz
First published 2001
by Routledge
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Transferred to Digital Printing 2006
Selection and editorial matter 2001 Isabel Dyck, Nancy Davis
Lewis, and Sara McLafferty; individual chapters
the contributors
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Geographies of womens health/edited by Isabel Dyck, Nancy Davis
Lewis, and Sara McLafferty.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. WomenHealth and hygieneCross-cultural studies.
2. WomenMedical careCross-cultural studies.
3. Medical geography. 4. World healthCase studies.
I. Dyck, Isabel. II. Lewis, Nancy, 1946 III. McLafferty, Sara, 1951
RA564.85 .G47 2000
ISBN 041523607X
Contents
ISABEL DYCK, NANCY DAVIS LEWIS, AND SARA MCLAFFERTY
CAROL THOMAS AND JAN RIGBY
SUSAN CRADDOCK
JIM GLASSMAN
PATRICIA GOBER AND MARK W. ROSENBERG
ALLISON WILLIAMS
CAROLINE KERNER, ADRIAN J. BAILEY, ALISON MOUNTZ, INES MIYARES, AND RICHARD A. WRIGHT
CYNTHIA POPE
SUPRABHA (SUE) TRIPATHI
LENORE MANDERSON, MAUREEN KIRK, AND ELIZABETH HOBAN
YVONNE UNDERHILL-SEM
JOYCE DAVIDSON
PAMELA MOSS AND ISABEL DYCK
ANDREA LITVA, KAY PEGGS, AND GRAHAM MOON
ANNE ELLAWAY AND SALLY MACINTYRE
