A Research Agenda for Gender and Health

Edited by Jasmine Gideon, Professor of Global Health and Development, School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London and Sarah Hawkes, Professor of Global Public Health, Institute for Global Health, University College London, UK

Contents

1 Introduction: Gender and health – a future
research agenda 1
Jasmine Gideon and Sarah Hawkes
2 How did colonialism change our gender and
our sexuality? The case of Indigenous Wixárika
communities 21
Jennie Gamlin, Maria Teresa Fernández Acevez
and Paulina Ultreras Villagrana
3 Gendered violence and health in ‘translocational’
perspective: Brazilian women’s experiences in Rio
de Janeiro and London 41
Cathy McIlwaine and Moniza Rizzini Ansari
4 Gender, work, development and the politics/
practices of reproductive health in a neo-liberal
economy 69
Darshi Thoradeniya, Ramya Kumar and
Anne-Emanuelle Birn
5 Gender, health and technology: The rise of
femtech - periods, profit and power 87
Catriona McMillan
6 Gender and the commercial determinants of health 107
Sarah Hill
7 Private financing in health – what does this mean
for gender equality? 123
Jasmine Gideon and Camila Gianella
8 What does ‘sexual orientation conversion therapy’
signify? Examining the political abuse of medicine
in the context of heterosexism under threat 145
Volkan Yilmaz
9 Gender and global health governance 167
Julia Smith and Clare Wenham