Global prescriptions : gendering health and human rights
"The book reviews a decade of women's participation in UN conference, transnational networks, national advocacy efforts and sexual and reproductive health provision, assessing both their strengths and weaknesses. It contains trenchant critiques of the Cairo, Beijing and Copenhagen conference documents and of 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2003
Zed Books ; United Nations Research Institute for Social Development ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, London, New York, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003
Cross-cultural studies
xiv, 306 pages ; 23 cm
9781842770047, 9781842770078, 1842770047, 1842770071
50920757
Transnationalizing women's health movements
The UN conferences as sites of discursive struggle: gains and fault lines
HIV/AIDS and the human right to health: on a collision course with global capitalism
Managing health under global capitalism: equity vs. productivity
Implementing international norms at the national level: women's health NGOs on the firing line
Conclusion: reflections on global governance and transnational feminist movements in an era of infinite war