Geographies of women's health / edited by Isabel Dyck, Nancy Davis Lewis, and Sara McLafferty.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

xiv, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Pt. 1. Globalization, structural change, and political realignment: implications for women's health. Women's health in Europe: beyond epidemiology? / Carol Thomas and Jan Rigby ; Scales of justice: women, equity, and HIV in East Africa / Susan Craddock ; Women workers and the regulation of health and safety on the industrial periphery: the case of Northern Thailand / Jim Glassman ; Looking back, looking around, looking forward: a woman's right to choose / Patricia Gober and Mark W. Rosenberg -- Pt. 2. Providing and gaining access to health care: local areas and networks. Home care restructuring at work: the impact of policy transformation on women's labor / Allison Williams ; "Thank God she's not sick": health and disciplinary practice among Salvadoran women in northern New Jersy / Caroline Kerner ... [et al.] ; Babies and borderlands: factors that influence Sonoran women's decision to seek prenatal care in southern Arizona / Cynthia Pope ; Differing access to social networks: rural and urban women in India with reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases / Suprabha (Sue) Tripathi ; Walking the talk: research partnerships in women's business in Australia / Lenore Manderson, Maureen Kirk, and Elizabeth Hoban -- Pt. 3. Embodied health and illness, perceptions, and place. "The baby is turning": child-bearing in Waniegela, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea / Yvonne Underhill-Sem ; Fear and trembling in the mall: women, agoraphobia, and body boundaries / Joyce Davidson ; Material bodies precariously positioned: women embodying chronic illness in the workplace / Pamela Moss and Isabel Dyck ; The beauty of health: locating young women's health and appearance / Andrea Litva, Kay Peggs, and Graham Moon ; Women in their place: gender and perceptions of neighborhoods and health in the west of Scotland / Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre.

Includes bibliographical references and index.