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Global Prescriptions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781842770078)
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xGlobal 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.Author: Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
ISBN-10: 1842770071
ISBN-13: 9781842770078
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2003
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.36w x 0.69d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2004 pg. 1515
Women's Review of Books 12/01/2004 pg. 28
By Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
xROSALIND POLLACK PETCHESKY is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Co-author of Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives across Countries and Cultures, she is the founder and past international coordinator of the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRRAG) and a MacArthur Fellow. Her recent response to 9.11, Phantom Towers, has had an extraordinary impact, being published in a large number of print and media sites in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and India. Professor Petchesky has long been active in women's, social justice and peace efforts and is a board member of the Women's Environment and Development Organization and the international journal, Reproductive Health Matters.
ROSALIND POLLACK PETCHESKY is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Co-author of Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives across Countries and Cultures, she is the founder and past international coordinator of the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRRAG) and a MacArthur Fellow. Her recent response to 9.11, Phantom Towers, has had an extraordinary impact, being published in a large number of print and media sites in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and India. Professor Petchesky has long been active in women's, social justice and peace efforts and is a board member of the Women's Environment and Development Organization and the international journal, Reproductive Health Matters.
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