Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights - Hardcover

Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842770047 ISBN 13: 9781842770047

Verlag: Zed Books Ltd, 2003

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Book by Petchesky Rosalind Pollack

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'A major contribution to contemporary debates on gender, health, and human rights. Through her analysis of the role of the transnational women's movement in a range of social justice arenas, Petchesky offers important new insights into the complex political forces shaping struggles for reproductive and sexual rights within the context of rapid social and economic globalization. [This] is critical social analysis at its very best.' Richard Parker, Professor, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University 'Scrupulously researched, Petchesky offers an insightful overview of recent struggles to promote health and human rights. At a time when the global corporate sector appears overpoweringly strong relative to governments, the United Nations and civil society, Petchesky provides an invaluable orientation and realistic multi-pronged agenda for challenging the current global acceptance of profit over people.' Barbara Klugman, Women's Health Project, South Africa A well-known feminist and political theorist, Petchesky does a thorough historical and political review from a feminist perspective of key events and organizations which influence health and human rights today; in her inimitable style, she minces no words in her critique of the limitations of these efforts. Her book makes fascinating reading, is rigorously researched, and carries the author's personal stamp of brilliant scholarship and fearless positioning.' Purnima Mane, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria 'A brilliant, scholarly analysis of the linkages between global policies, socio-political alignments, anti-feminist offensives and dwindling resources in creating barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights.' Bene E. Madunagu, Chair, Girls' Power Initiative (GPI) Executive Board, Nigeria 'Petchesky navigates with great skill the complex set of issues she has chosen to tackle. Her conclusion is worth reading on its own as a stirring and visionary text by a fine scholar and activist with cogent and convincing arguments. The other five chapters are equally appealing though more complex in nature, and deal with an impressive number of issues and events that indeed show the importance of the interconnections Petchesky sets out to make.' Wendy Harcourt, International Affairs 'Global Prescription defines women's health issues broadly and is therefore a welcome addition to the canon of writing about women and health...Petchesky's work truly edifies the reader and points to what is arguably one of the biggest challenges facing developing nations...Policy-makers, women's NGOs, and feminist theoreticians will surely benefit from this book...the timing of Petchesky's book couldn't be better'. Women's Rev Books

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Global Prescriptions is a critical yet optimistic analysis of the role of transnational women`s groups in setting the agendas for women`s health in international and national settings. The book reviews a decade of women`s participation in UN conferences, transnational networks, national advocacy efforts and sexual and reproductive health provision, assessing both their strengths and weaknesses. It critiques the Cairo, Beijing and Copenhagen conference documents and World Bank, WHO and health sector reform policies. It also offers case studies of national-level reform and advocacy efforts and appraises the controversy concerning TRIPS, trade, and essential AIDS drugs. That controversy, Petchesky argues, starkly illuminates the `collision course` of transnational corporate and global trade agendas with the struggle for gender, racial and regional equity and the human right to health. The author takes into account the formidable political and ideological forces confronting global justice movements and also offers a sobering reassessment of transnational women`s NGOs themselves and such problems as `NGOization`, fragmentation and donor-dependency. Petchesky argues that the power of women`s transnational coalitions is only as great as their organic connection with grassroots social movements.

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• Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1842770047
• ISBN 13: 9781842770047
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320