Resources, reviews and miscellaneous

Further reading

• Asian and Pacific Women's Resource and Action Series: Health (1990) Asian and Pacific Women's Resource Collective Network: women from the region pool their knowledge and experience of health issues, focusing on strategies and action in the 1980s. The first of a series. Kuala Lumpur: Asian and Pacific Development Centre, second impression.
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• Berer , M . 1993 . Women and HIV/AIDS: an International Resource Book , Edited by: Ray , S . London : Pandora Press . information, action and resources on women and HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and sexual relationships
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• Hartmann , B . 1987 . Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control and Contraceptive Choice , New York : Harper and Row . encompassing a wide view of the policies and practices which have affected women's reproductive rights, this invaluable publication provides a compel- ling and urgently needed critique of the economic, political, health and human rights consequences of population control as practised by national and international agencies
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• Jeffrey , P , Jeffrey , R and Lyon , A . 1988 . Labour Pains and Labour Power: women and childbearing in India , London : Zed Books . an analysis of health care systems in rural north India, woven into women's own accounts of their experiences of work and childbearing; the ‘private’ act of child-bearing cannot be divorced from its social and economic context.
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• Khattab , H . 1992 . The Silent Endurance: Social Conditions of Women's Reproductive Health in Rural Egypt , New York : UNICEF . original research into the widespread reproductive morbidity experienced by women, and their reaction to it. Women generally are taught to put up with pain and discomfort as part of their condition. Information, education and the communications of health messages are seen as an essential part of initiatives to combat women's ill-health.
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• Koblinsky , M , Timyan , J and Gay , J , eds. 1993 . The Health of Women: a Global Perspective , Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press . an all-embracing survey of the issues surrounding women's health, including analyses of poverty, health beyond reproductive issues, nutrition, infection, family planning, abortion, women's mortality, violence against women, and mental health.
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• McDonnell , K . 1986 . Adverse Effects: Women and the Pharmaceutical Industry , Malaysia : International Organisation of Consumers' Unions . offers health activists a global perspective on women and pharmaceuticals, with articles from India, the Philippines, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States. Highlights the dangers women face from a powerful global drug industry. Available from IOCU Central Office, 9 Emmastraat, 2595 EG The Hague, Netherlands.
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• Berer , M and Ravindran , S , eds. Reproductive Health Matters twice-yearly journal published in English, offering in-depth analysis of reproductive health matters from a women-centred perspective; 1, London Bridge Street, London SE1 9SG Tel (44-71)3570136.
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• Smyre , P . 1991 . Women and Health , London : Zed Books . this handbook examines factors influencing women's health, key health issues for women, and action to improve women's health. An excellent reference book offering an overview of the issues for newcomers as well as forming a valuable summary for specialists.
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• forthcoming in 1994 . Too Many for Whom? People or ‘Population’ , London : The Ecologist/Earthscan . a look at the way the ‘population problem’ has been constructed, looking at the broad framework of interrelated factors such as food distribution, gender, land use, lifestyle and consumption patterns within which the debate must be understood, and elicits the roles and motivations of key players such as Northern donors, pharmaceutical companies, economists and environmentalists.
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• Turshen , M , ed. 1991 . Women and Health in Africa , New Jersey : Africa World Press . this collection of articles covers sensitive and complex issues of family planning and reproductive health, such as how women of Algeria strive to take control over their fertility and how dangerous anti-fertility programmes have been undertaken in Namibia.
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• Film: Antibodies Against Pregnancy — documentary film made in India by Ulrike Shaz with I. Scheider, showing recruitment to clinical trials and interviews with researchers. Available from U.Schaz, Bleicherstrasse 2, D-22767 Hamburg, Germany
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