Beyond the metaphorical use of healthy society as a normative goal of Peace Research, there is little engagement in contemporary Peace Research with questions of global health. Simultaneously, critical feminist approaches to the intersections of different forms of violence and health are rare in Global Health literature. Bringing together feminist Peace Research and Global Health scholarships, this edited book aims to enrich both scholarly traditions. On the one hand, the book provides perspectives from feminist Peace Research that help us to understand and analyse different forms of violence in the gendered realm of global health. On the other hand, the variety of empirical cases analysed in the chapters widens the horizons of Peace Research, in its understanding of what it means to study violence, peace, and justice in everyday lives.

The themes dealt in the chapters of the book vary from questions of reproductive health, to non-communicable (e.g. breast cancer) and communicable diseases (e.g. HIV/AIDS), war-time sexual violence, mental health, therapeutic justice, domestic violence, and ageing and dementia.

This text will help students and researchers alike navigate Global Health through a feminist lens.

Tiina Vaittinenis Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland.

Catia C. Confortini is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Wellesley College, USA.

1. Catia C. Confortini and Tiina Vaittinen. Introduction: Analysing Violences in Gendered Global Health

PART I: REVISITING STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE

2. Maria Tanyag. Replenishing Bodies and the Political Economy of SRHR in Crises and Emergencies

3. Néstor Nuño Martínez. Rethinking Global Health Priorities from the Margins: Health Access and Medical Care Claims among Indonesias Waria

4. Deborah Ikhile, Linda Gibson and Azrini Wahidin. I Cannot Know That Now I Have Cancer! A Structural Violence Perspective on Breast Cancer Detection in Uganda

5. Elina Oinas. HIV Politics and Structural Violence: Access to Treatment and Knowledge

PART II: VIOLENCES ENTANGLED

6. Dragana Luki and Ann Therese Lotherington. Fighting Symbolic Violence Through Artistic Encounters: Searching for Feminist Answers to the Question of Life and Death with Dementia

7. Camilla Reuterswärd. ¡Malas Madres, Malas Mujeres, Malas Todas! The Incarceration of Women for Abortion-Related Crimes in Mexico

8. Élise Féron. When is it Torture, When is it Rape? Discourses on Wartime Sexual Violence

PART III: TOWARDS PEACE AND JUSTICE IN GLOBAL HEALTH

9. Debra L. DeLaet, Shannon Golden and Veronica Laveta. Therapeutic Justice for Survivors of Human Rights Violations and Wartime Violence

10. Laura Finley. Domestic Violence and Public Health: Beginning Steps for Creating More Just and Effective Community Responses

11. Tiina Vaittinen. From Caring Self-Protection to Global Health as Conflict Transformation

12. Sophie Harman. Conclusion: Violence and the Paradox of Global Health