Gender, Global Health, and Violence

Tiina Vaittinen is Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland.Catia C. Confortini is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Wellesley College, USA.

• 1. Catia C. Confortini and Tiina Vaittinen. Introduction: Analysing Violences in Gendered Global HealthPART I: REVISITING STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE2. Maria Tanyag. Replenishing Bodies and the Political Economy of SRHR in Crises and Emergencies3. Néstor Nuño Martínez. Rethinking Global Health Priorities from the Margins: Health Access and Medical Care Claims among Indonesia’s Waria4. Deborah Ikhile, Linda Gibson and Azrini Wahidin. “I Cannot Know That Now I Have Cancer!” A Structural Violence Perspective on Breast Cancer Detection in Uganda 5. Elina Oinas. HIV Politics and Structural Violence: Access to Treatment and KnowledgePART II: VIOLENCES ENTANGLED6. Dragana Lukic and Ann Therese Lotherington. Fighting Symbolic Violence Through Artistic Encounters: Searching for Feminist Answers to the Question of Life and Death with Dementia7. Camilla Reuterswärd. ¡Malas Madres, Malas Mujeres, Malas Todas! The Incarceration of Women for Abortion-Related Crimes in Mexico8. Élise Féron. When is it Torture, When is it Rape? Discourses on Wartime Sexual ViolencePART III: TOWARDS PEACE AND JUSTICE IN GLOBAL HEALTH9. Debra L. DeLaet, Shannon Golden and Veronica Laveta. Therapeutic Justice for Survivors of Human Rights Violations and Wartime Violence10. Laura Finley. Domestic Violence and Public Health: Beginning Steps for Creating More Just and Effective Community Responses11. Tiina Vaittinen. From Caring Self-Protection to Global Health as Conflict Transformation12. Sophie Harman. Conclusion: Violence and the Paradox of Global Health

A welcome book to the peace research and global health fields.... [T]he ambitious volume successfully broadens the discourse in peace research by exploring the intertwined domains of feminist peace research and global health....Taken together, the contributions demonstrate that definitions of violence used in Peace Research using a feminist perspective are particularly relevant for Global Health. The volume touches on some of the extensive work that has been developed by global health researchers who helped to push this agenda forward in the health domain.... The contributors to this volume highlight how using a gender lens is fundamental to addressing the complicated relationship between global health and violence.... The chapters in this book offer a starting point for peace researchers on how to approach health and violence, and in line with its feminist principles, indicate how this research can be used to bring about change.