Global Health and Security

Critical Feminist Perspectives

Colleen O'Manique (Trent University, Canada), Pieter Fourie

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Routledge
09 December 2019

Feminism & feminist theory; Public health & preventive medicine; Health systems & services

Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the construction of health as a security issue by national governments and multilateral organizations. This book provides the first critical, feminist analysis of the flesh-and-blood impacts of the securitization of health on different bodies, while broadening the scope of what we understand as global health security.

It looks at how feminist perspectives on health and security can lead to different questions about health and in/security, problematizing some of the ‘common sense’ assumptions that underlie much of the discourse in this area. It considers the norms, ideologies, and vested interests that frame specific ‘threats’ to health and policy responses, while exposing how the current governance of the global economy shapes new threats to health. Some chapters focus on conflict, war and complex emergencies, while others move from a ‘high political’ focus to the domain of subtler and often insidious structural violence, illuminating the impacts of hegemonic masculinities and the neoliberal governance of the global economy on health and life chances.

Highlighting the critical intersections across health, gender and security, this book is an important contribution to scholarship on health and security, global health, public health and gender studies.

Edited by: Colleen O'Manique (Trent University Canada), Pieter Fourie
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 381g
ISBN: 9780367457501
ISBN 10: 0367457504
Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 09 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Colleen O’Manique teaches at Trent University, Canada. Her research has focused on feminist political economy and rights-based perspectives on health and health policies in the context of neoliberal globalization. Pieter Fourie teaches at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His research focuses on HIV/AIDS, global health governance, political epidemiology and the political economy of global development.