Second-Wave Neoliberalism

Gender, Race, and Health Sector Reform in Peru

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

AvChristina Ewig

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The first wave of neoliberal reform that swept across Latin America in the early 1990s focused on economic policies favoring structural adjustment, such as currency devaluation, cuts in state-supplied social services, and removal of protection for domestic industry against global competition. This wave has been the subject of widespread debate and criticism for its negative impact on the most vulnerable strata of society. But the second wave of the mid-1990s, which saw the introduction of many social policy reforms, has not received nearly as much attention. Christina Ewig seeks to correct this imbalance in scholarly research by presenting a case study of the multifaceted efforts to reform the health sector in Peru under the Fujimori regime. Second-Wave Neoliberalism combines top-down analysis of policy formation with bottom-up analysis of policy implementation using both qualitative and quantitative approaches—interviews and ethnographic observations along with formal surveys. Ewig’s findings lead her to conclude that neoliberal health reforms have brought greater social stratification and, in many ways, have increased gender, racial, and class inequity. But the story is complex, with real progress in some areas and surprising paradoxes in others, such as feminist involvement in family planning policy that resulted in a massive sterilization program targeting poor, indigenous women.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-06-29
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271037110

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ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface and AcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms 1. Intersecting Legacies of Inequality2.Colonization and Co-optation: Historical Legacies of Inequality in the State Health System3. Global Currents: Neoliberal and “Rights-Based” Development Paradigms 4.Gendered Divisions: The National Politics of Health Reform5.Mimicking Markets: Gender Equity and Public Health System Reforms6.Controlling Poor Women’s Bodies: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Family Planning Policy7.Insuring Gender Equity? Public and Private Insurance SchemesConclusion Methodological AppendixReferences Index

“Christina Ewig has written a first-rate book that makes contributions on several different levels. On the one hand, it integrates central political science concerns about the impact of welfare legacies and epistemic communities with a growing literature on gender equality and politics. At the same time, the book explores these issues through a compelling history of Peruvian health policy, focusing especially on the evolution of services shaped in response to the demands of male-dominated unions and then on efforts to restructure the system in the 1990s and early 2000s. Ewig’s analysis is all the more impressive because it is informed by extensive fieldwork that she conducted in Peru over the course of several years. Besides the obvious appeal this book will have for specialists in Peru, it should be of great interest to students of comparative social policy and of the complex politics of gender, intersectionality, and historical legacies.”—Robert Kaufman, Rutgers University