1st Edition

Women's Health In Mainland Southeast Asia

Edited By Andrea Whittaker Copyright 2003
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

A thought-provoking look at women’s health in developing nations! This book shows how war, military regimes, industrialization, urbanization, and social upheaval have all affected the choices Southeast Asian women make about their health and health care. When you read these first-person accounts from Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Burma, you’ll be drawn into the lives of women dealing with... Read more
  • Introduction: Reflections on Gender, Power, and Health in Mainland Southeast Asia
  • Gendered Bodies: Recruitment, Management, and Occupational Health in Northern Thailand’s Electronics Factories
  • Female Garment Factory Workers in Cambodia: Migration, Sex Work, and HIV/AIDS
  • Negotiating Care: Reproductive Tract Infections in Vietnam
  • Women’s Health in Northeast Thailand: Working at the Interface Between the Local and the Global
  • Menstrual Madness: Women’s Health and Well-Being in Urban Burma
  • Reproducing Inequalities: Abortion Policy and Practice in Thailand
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Andrea Whittaker