The Janus Face of Infertility in the Global North and South: Reviewing Feminist Contributions to the Debate

MacBride-Stewart, Sara; Simon‐Kumar, Rachel

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-52080-7_24

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“…Strong links have been made between science investment and health; while some point to a complex relationship in which economics drives gendered access to biomedical developments (i.e. such as the availability of infertility treatments to those who can pay, rather than on need) (MacBride‐Stewart and Simon‐Kumar, in press). There is however substantial debate about how the economic environment is affecting knowledge exchange between the North and the South (Baskaran and Boden, ; Krishna, ).…”

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Towards North‐South Interconnectedness: a Critique of Gender Dualities in Sustainable Development, the Environment and Women's Health

Simon‐Kumar¹,

MacBride-Stewart²,

Baker³

et al. 2017

Gender Work & Organization

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Well-established bodies of scholarship that inform contemporary global debates on gender, environment and health are fundamentally based on dualistic representations of women, such as First/Third World, rich/poor and victim/polluter. In this paper, we argue that recent socioeconomic transitions -affluence in the global South and rising inequality in the global North -demand the development of gender analytical frameworks that better recognize the diversity of roles that women play in the changing global social order that impact on their health. Our paper (a) critiques the dualisms found in three influential bodies of scholarship, namely gender, environment and development, science, technology and society, and sustainable development; and (b) through our critique, conceptually develops an 'interconnectedness' perspective that focuses on the increasingly shared lived realities of women in the North and the South, to understand the emerging complex relationships between gender, environment and health.

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Section: Science Technology Society (Sts) Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%