Abstract
Abstract The Global Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health examines everyday inequalities in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and the failure to address them in crisis settings from a feminist International Relations (IR) perspective. Drawing on a richer definition of bodily autonomy, it employs a nested and multi-scalar approach to trace the compounding of restrictions to SRHR with crisis-specific risks and violence from the household, community, state, and global levels. Its central argument is that restrictions to SRHR are not incidental but rather integral to the reproduction of a neoliberal logic of depletion. Bodily autonomy is recognized not as a collateral issue where patriarchal bargains need to be made in order to advance feminism in global agendas but rather as its cornerstone, which ties together all sites, forms, and temporalities of gender equality. This book includes new empirical evidence drawn from primary field research in the Philippines and analysis of wide-ranging secondary sources across conflict and disaster settings.
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