The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the construction of health as a security issue by national governments and multilateral organizations. This book provides the first critical, feminist analysis of the flesh-and-blood impacts of the securitization of health on different bodies, while broadening the scope of what we understand as global health security.

It looks at how feminist perspectives on health and security can lead to different questions about health and in/security, problematizing some of the 'common sense' assumptions that underlie much of the discourse in this area. It considers the norms, ideologies, and vested interests that frame specific 'threats' to health and policy responses, while exposing how the current governance of the global economy shapes new threats to health. Some chapters focus on conflict, war and complex emergencies, while others move from a 'high political' focus to the domain of subtler and often insidious structural violence, illuminating the impacts of hegemonic masculinities and the neoliberal governance of the global economy on health and life chances.

Highlighting the critical intersections across health, gender and security, this book is an important contribution to scholarship on health and security, global health, public health and gender studies.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2018

ISBN

9781317195573

Edition

Topic

Medicine

Subtopic

General Health

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
1 Global health, gender, and the security question
2 The invisible tragedy of war: Women and the environment
3 Survivors of conflict and post-conflict sexual and gender-based violence and torture in the Great Lakes region of Africa: A holistic model of care
4 Securing health in Afghanistan: Gender, militarized humanitarianism, and the legacies of occupation
5 A moving target: Gender, health and the securitisation of migration
6 The global movement for sexual and reproductive health and rights: Intellectual underpinnings
7 Solving Nandi: The personal embodiment of structural injustice in South Africa’s Child Support Grant
8 Responses to recent infectious disease emergencies: A critical gender analysis
9 The invisible men: HIV, security, and men who have sex with women
10 Labouring bodies in the global economy: Structural violence and occupational health
11 Public health in the Anthropocene: Exploring population fears and climate threats
12 Bewitched or deranged: Access to health care for transgender persons
13 Development as violence: Corporeal needs, embodied life, and the sustainable development goals
Index