Women’s Health Movements

Meredeth Turshen taught at Rutgers University for 35 years. She has written six books, Women's Health Movements: A Global Force for Change (2019, 2007), The Political Ecology of Disease in Tanzania (1984), The Politics of Public Health (1989), Privatizing Health Services in Africa (1999), and Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa (2016). Her edited books include: Women and Health in Africa (1991), Women's Lives and Public Policy (1993), What Women Do in Wartime (1998), The Aftermath: Women in Postconflict Transformation (2002), and African Women (2010).

Chapter 1 Women Organizing: Activism Worldwide.- Chapter 2 The Global Context.- Chapter 3 The Triple Day: Women’s Home, Community, and Workplace Environments.- Chapter 4 Fighting for Good Health Services, Struggling with the Pharmaceutical Industry.- Chapter 5 The Sexual Politics of Violence against Women.- Chapter 6 Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.- Chapter 7 Toward a Universalism of Inclusion.