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What is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? These are questions that the University of California Global Health Institute's (UCGHI) Center of Expertise (COE) on Women's Health, Gender, and Empowerment aimed to answer with this book. Since 2009 the COE has brought together a multidisciplinary network of experts from across the University of California (UC) campuses and departments, along with their global partners, to advance research and education on what has become a capstone theme in the global health and development agenda: women's and girls' empowerment and health. Women's Empowerment and Global Health demonstrates the outcomes of COE's commitment to advance pedagogy and present the work of thought leaders in this domain. Despite the rise of a human rights-based approach to health and increasing awareness of the synergies between women's health and empowerment, a lack of consensus remains as to how to operationalize empowerment in ways that improve health. Women's Empowerment and Global Health presents thirteen multidisciplinary case studies that demonstrate how science and advocacy can be creatively merged to enhance the agency and status of girls and women. The book is organized into two sections, the first focused on sociocultural, educational, and health systems interventions, and the second on economic, policy, and structural interventions. Seven of the chapters are enriched by complementary videos that provide readers with context about programs in India, Kenya, the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Women's Empowerment and Global Health provides the next generation of researchers and practitioners, as well as students in global and public health, sociology, anthropology, women's studies, law, business, and medicine, with cutting-edge and inspirational examples of programs that point the way toward achieving women's equality and the positive outcome of empowerment on health.

Women --- Women's rights --- Medical policy --- Rights of women --- Human rights --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medical care --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Social conditions --- Health and hygiene --- Political activity --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Government policy --- african womens rights. --- beyond womens lib. --- educating girls in nigeria. --- fertility in rural india. --- gender studies. --- girls empowerment. --- girls health. --- global womens issues. --- human rights. --- obstetric fistula in kenya. --- sex workers. --- sociocultural impact of womens health. --- women with hiv aids. --- womens advocacy. --- womens agency. --- womens empowerment. --- womens health and hygiene. --- womens health in india. --- womens health. --- womens political activity. --- womens rights. --- womens studies.

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Aims to dispel the common notion that American women became activists in the fight against female cancer only after the 1970's. This book offers an examination of films, publications, health fairs, and archival materials and traces women's cancer education campaigns back to the early twentieth century.

Cancer in women --- Neoplasms --- Women --- Women's Health. --- Woman's Health --- Womens Health --- Health, Woman's --- Health, Women's --- Health, Womens --- History --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- history. --- Diseases --- United States.

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For the first generations of university women, higher education was a transformative experience, but these opportunities would narrow in the decades that followed. Examining the period between 1870 and 1930, University Women explores the processes of integration and separation that marked women's contested entrance into higher education.

Women college students --- Women in higher education --- College students --- Education, Higher --- History. --- Canada. --- STEM. --- alumnae. --- coeducation. --- equity. --- faculty. --- public education. --- researchers. --- social reform. --- teachers. --- undergraduates. --- womens movement. --- womens rights.

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It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access to necessary health care. And yet it is no surprise that in many places throughout the United States, getting an abortion can be a monumental challenge. Anti-choice politicians and activists have worked tirelessly to impose needless restrictions on this straightforward medical procedure that, at best, delay it and, at worst, create medical risks and deny women their constitutionally protected right to choose. Obstacle Course tells the story of abortion in America, capturing a disturbing reality of insurmountable barriers people face when trying to exercise their legal rights to medical services. Authors David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe lay bare the often arduous and unnecessarily burdensome process of terminating a pregnancy: the sabotaged decision-making, clinics in remote locations, insurance bans, harassing protesters, forced ultrasounds and dishonest medical information, arbitrary waiting periods, and unjustified procedure limitations. Based on patients’ stories as well as interviews with abortion providers and allies from every state in the country, Obstacle Course reveals the unstoppable determination required of women in the pursuit of reproductive autonomy as well as the incredible commitment of abortion providers. Without the efforts of an unheralded army of medical professionals, clinic administrators, counselors, activists, and volunteers, what is a legal right would be meaningless for the almost one million people per year who get abortions. There is a better way—treating abortion like any other form of health care—but the United States is a long way from that ideal.

Abortion --- Abortion services --- abortion clinics. --- abortion counseling. --- abortion procedures. --- abortion. --- access to abortions. --- activism. --- family planning. --- feminism. --- gender and sexuality. --- gender. --- harassment. --- health care. --- legal rights. --- medical services. --- modern health care. --- motherhood. --- nonfiction. --- politics and the law. --- politics. --- poverty. --- pregnancy. --- pro choice. --- pro life. --- protesters. --- reproductive justice. --- reproductive rights. --- roe v wade. --- safe abortions. --- social issues. --- social workers. --- waiting period. --- womens health. --- womens issues. --- womens medicine. --- womens rights.

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For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. "Sexual harassment" has entered common parlance; police departments are equipped with rape kits; more than half of the national legislators in Bolivia and Rwanda are women; and a woman candidate won the plurality of the popular votes in the 2016 United States presidential election. But have we really reached equality and overthrown a patriarchal point of view? The Big Push exposes how patriarchal ideas and relationships continue to be modernized to this day. Through contemporary cases and reports, renowned political scientist Cynthia Enloe exposes the workings of everyday patriarchy-in how Syrian women civil society activists have been excluded from international peace negotiations; how sexual harassment became institutionally accepted within major news organizations; or in how the UN Secretary General's post has remained a masculine domain. Enloe then lays out strategies and skills for challenging patriarchal attitudes and operations. Encouraging self-reflection, she guides us in the discomforting curiosity of reviewing our own personal complicity in sustaining patriarchy in order to withdraw our own support for it. Timely and globally conscious, The Big Push is a call for feminist self-reflection and strategic action with a belief that exposure complements resistance.

Patriarchy. --- Sex role. --- Feminism --- Patriarchy --- Sexual harassment. --- Women --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Social aspects --- gender womens studies. --- lesbian rights. --- lgbt rights. --- male allies. --- patriarchal society. --- patriarchy. --- presidential election. --- rape kits. --- secretary general of the un. --- self reflection. --- sexual harassment. --- womens rights advocate. --- womens rights.