This is an introduction to the women's health movements and what is being accomplished by women organizing to achieve better health care around the world.

Autorentext
MEREDETH TURSHEN is Professor of Public Policy, Rutgers University, USA. She is author of The Aftermath in Post-Conflict Transformation and What Women do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa (Zed Books).

Inhalt
Women Organizing: Activism Worldwide The Global Context Women's Environments: Home, Community, and Workplace Fighting for Health Services, Struggling with the Pharmaceutical Industry The Sexual Politics of Violence against Women Women's Reproductive Rights Framing Women's Health Problems: Towards A New Universalism