Common Courage Press recently published a book written by Anne Firth Murray, titled From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice. The book is written from the perspective that women's ill-health should be approached as a violation of human rights and justice, and not just as an impediment to economic development. According to a book report in The Lancet, From Outrage to Courage provides "a convincing, hard-hitting, and at times relentlessly discouraging portrait of how girls and women are undervalued, neglected, and victimised." The book describes the consequences of gender bias throughout the life cycle: from sex-selective abortion, female infanticide and neglect of girl infants and children; through female genital mutilation and early marriage and childbearing; the greater risk of HIV infection borne by adolescent girls and women; on through the health risks and complications of pregnancy and childbearing; and ending with an analysis of discrimination against older women.
From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice, Anne Firth Murray, Common Courage Press, 2008. ISBN 1-56751-390-5, 330 p. US$24.95
Book report 'Human rights and women's health: global goals in small places', by Ann Starrs, in The Lancet, Vol. 371, No. 9620, April 12-18, 2008, http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608605437/fulltext