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Women's health problems and health care needs result from a combination of socio-economic status and sexuality. All over the world women are organizing to improve their status in society and to better their health and health care. Women's activism is rooted in the global context of resource inequities between the North and the South and among genders, races, and classes within countries. Women organize in their homes, their communities, their workplaces, and at the international level. They fight for better health services and struggle with the pharmaceutical industry. Women's responses to the violence they experience are at the very heart of their health movements. Most organize first around demands for reproductive rights and then expand to question care for the mentally ill, disabled, and malnourished.Four features distinguish this book: its international scope; its coverage of the major health issues from occupational hazards, AIDS, and mental illness to violence, birth control, and mental illness; its new analyses of those issues; and its emphasis on women's organized responses to their problems.

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