Feminist Global Health Security

by Clare Wenham

When Zika made headlines in 2016, images of women cradling babies affected with microcephaly spread across the media and pulled on heartstrings. But, as this book argues, whilst this outbreak was about women and babies, this outbreak also highlighted the lack of gendered considerations in global health security. The policy response to Zika focused on limiting the spread of the virus through domestic and civic cleaning to remove mosquitoes and by asking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197556930
• ISBN13: 9780197556931
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"