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Pioneers Or Pawns?: Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen

Pioneers Or Pawns?: Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen

de Regt, Marina

Hardcover

Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East

EconomicsAnthropologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0815631219
ISBN13: 9780815631217
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Nov 1 2007
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.33 Depth: 9.33
Language: English

Marina de Regt provides an invaluable analysis of gender, health care training, and globalization, demonstrating women's positive impact on the complex workings of Yemeni health institutions. Using the Hodeida Urban Primary Health Care Project as a case study, the author looks at how development policies of the state interconnect with agendas of global donor organizations and the employment of women in the face of social disapproval and barriers to advancement.

Her highly accessible writing blends keen observations steeped in personal experience, with a thorough grounding in theoretical literature. Through interviews and the experience of working directly with the women she writes about, De Regt gives voice to her subjects and offers an extraordinary portrait of the lives, emotions, and work of women dedicated to healing in a time of great political change. This vitally important work challenges not only preconceived notions of the way in which health care is distributed in the Middle East, but also questions the way women participate, facilitate, and resist the political change around them.

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