Gender, Global Health, and Violence: Feminist Perspectives on Peace and Disease [Hardcover]

Beyond the metaphorical use of healthy society as a normative goal of Peace Research, there is little engagement in contemporary Peace Research with questions of global health. Simultaneously, critical feminist approaches to the intersections of different forms of violence and health are rare in Global Health literature. Bringing together feminist Peace Research and Global Health scholarships, this edited book aims to enrich both scholarly traditions. On the one hand, the book provides perspectives from feminist Peace Research that help us to understand and analyse different forms of violence in the gendered realm of global health. On the other hand, the variety of empirical cases analysed in the chapters widens the horizons of Peace Research, in its understanding of what it means to study violence, peace, and justice in everyday lives.

The themes dealt in the chapters of the book vary from questions of reproductive health, to non-communicable (e.g. breast cancer) and communicable diseases (e.g. HIV/AIDS), war-time sexual violence, mental health, therapeutic justice, domestic violence, and ageing and dementia.

This text will help students and researchers alike navigate Global Health through a feminist lens.

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.

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 puslc"