Clare Wenham is Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She specializes in global health security and the politics and policy of pandemic preparedness and outbreak response, through analysis of influenza, Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19. Her work has been featured in The Lancet, BMJ, Security Dialogue, International Affairs, BMJ Global Health and Third World Quarterly.

• Acknowledgements


• List of Acronyms


• Chapter 1 : Introduction


• Chapter 2: Theorizing Feminist Health Security


• Chapter 3: The Zika Virus


• Chapter 4: In/Visibility


• Chapter 5: Reproduction and the State


• Chapter 6: Violence and Everyday Crises


• Chapter 7: Conclusion


• Epilogue: COVID-19


• Bibliography

Global health security, focused on short-term response efforts, fails to consider the differential impacts of outbreaks on women. Feminist Global Health Security highlights the ways in which women are disadvantaged by global health security policy, through engagement with feminist international relations concepts of visibility, social and stratified reproduction, intersectionality, and structural violence. Wenham ultimately asks, what would global health policy look like if it were to take gender seriously, and how would this impact global disease control?