Global health security, focused on short-term response efforts, fails to consider the differential impacts of outbreaks on women. This book highlights the ways in which women are disadvantaged by global health security policy, through engagement with feminist international relat…
When Zika made headlines in 2016, images of women cradling babies affected with microcephaly spread across the world. But, as this book aruges, whilst this outbreak was about women and babies, it also highlighted the lack of gendered considerations in global health security. The…
"Global health security, focused on a firefighting short-term response efforts fail to consider the differential impacts of outbreaks on women. For example, the policy response to the Zika outbreak centred on limiting the spread of the vector through civic participation and aski…