Women's Health and the World's Cities

Book Overview

Growing urbanization affects women and men in fundamentally different ways, but the relationship between gender and city environments has been ignored or misunderstood. Women and men play different roles, frequent different public areas, and face different health risks. Women suffer disproportionately from disease, injury, and violence because their access to resources is often more limited than that of their male counterparts. Yet, when women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812222644
• ISBN13: 9780812222647
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"