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Global Prescriptions - Gendering Health and Human Rights (Paperback, New)
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Global Prescriptions is a critical yet optimistic analysis of the
role of transnational women's groups in setting the agendas for
women's health in international and national settings. The book
reviews a decade of women's participation in UN conferences,
transnational networks, national advocacy efforts and sexual and
reproductive health provision, assessing both their strengths and
weaknesses. It critiques the Cairo, Beijing and Copenhagen
conference documents and World Bank, WHO and health sector reform
policies. It also offers case studies of national-level reform and
advocacy efforts and appraises the controversy concerning TRIPS,
trade, and essential AIDS drugs. That controversy, Petchesky
argues, starkly illuminates the 'collision course' of transnational
corporate and global trade agendas with the struggle for gender,
racial and regional equity and the human right to health. The
author takes into account the formidable political and ideological
forces confronting global justice movements and also offers a
sobering reassessment of transnational women's NGOs themselves and
such problems as 'NGOization', fragmentation and donor-dependency.
Petchesky argues that the power of women's transnational coalitions
is only as great as their organic connection with grassroots social
movements.
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