Geographies of Women's Health

Sara McLafferty, Nancy Davis Lewis, Isabel Dyck

• 1. Why geographies of women's health? Isabel Dyck, Nancy Davis Lewis and Sara McLafferty Part I. Globalization, Structural Change and Political Realignment: Implications for Women's Health2. Women's health in Europe: beyond epidemiology? Carol Thomas and Jan Rigby 3. Scales of justice: women, equity, and HIV in East Africa Susan Craddock 4. Women workers and the regulation of health and safety on the industrial periphery: the case of northern Thailand Jim Glassman 5. Looking back, looking around, looking forward: a woman's right to choose Patricia Gober and Mark W. Rosenberg Part II. Providing and Gaining Access to Healthcare: Local Areas and Networks6. Home care restructuring at work: the impact of policy transformation on women's labour Allison Williams 7. 'Thank God she's not sick': health and disciplinary practice among Salvadoran women in northern New Jersey Caroline Kerner, Adrian J. Bailey, Alison Mountz, Ines Miyares and Richard A. Wright 8. Babies and borderlands: factors that influence Sonoran woman's decision to seek prenatal care in southern Arizona Cynthia Pope 9. Differing access to social networks: rural and urban women in India with reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases Suprabha Tripathi 10. Walking the talk: research partnerships in women's business in Australia Lenore Manderson, Maureen Kirk and Elizabeth Hoban Part III. Embodied Health and Illness, Perceptions and Place11. 'The baby is turning': child-bearing in Wanigela. Oro province, Papua New Guinea Yvonne Underhill-Sem 12. Fear and trembling in the mall: women, agoraphobia and body boundaries Joyce Davidson 13. Material bodies precariously positioned: women embodying chronic illness in the workplace Pamela Moss and Isabel Dyck 14. The beauty of health: locating young women's health and appearance Andrea Litva, Kay Peggs and Graham Moon 15. Women in their place: gender and perceptions of neighbourhoods and health in the west of Scotland Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre