Women's Health Movements A Global Force for Change

Meredeth Turshen, a Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, holds a D. Phil. in comparative politics from the University of Sussex in England. She has written three books: The Political Ecology of Disease in Tanzania (1984), The Politics of Public Health (1989), and Privatizing Health Services in Africa (1999). She has edited five others: Women and Health in Africa (1991), Women's Lives and Public Policy: The International Experience (1993), What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa (1998), African Women's Health (2000), and The Aftermath: Women in Postconflict Transformation (2002). She served as Co-Chair of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, as Treasurer of the Committee for Health in Southern Africa, and is a contributing editor of the Review of African Political Economy.Turshen, Meredeth is the author of 'Women's Health Movements A Global Force for Change', published 2007 under ISBN 9781403978981 and ISBN 1403978980.