Pioneers or Pawns?: Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen

by Marina De Regt

Marina de Regt provides an invaluable analysis of gender, health care training, and globalization, demonstrating women's positive impact on the complex workings of Yemeni health institutions. Using the Hodeida Urban Primary Health Care Project as a case study, the author looks at how development policies of the state interconnect with agendas of global donor organizations and the employment of women in the face of social disapproval and barriers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815631219
• ISBN13: 9780815631217
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"