This book 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. It seeks to address the puzzle of why inequalities and barriers to SRHR continue to exist within a wider political context where the importance of gender equality has never been more accepted, and women are represented as central to major global agendas. In the increasingly crisis-prone world we live in today, the neglect of health and particularly women's health and well-being, seems counter-intuitive. The significance of SRHR for global peace and security is often hidden or underexamined. The unique contribution of this book is therefore to show that restrictions to sexual and reproductive health can be traced back to macro-level processes such as how states and the international community allocate resources during crises and in peacetime. 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 recognised 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 together. 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.

About the Author
Maria Tanyag is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of International Relations in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at Australian National University. She was awarded her PhD from Monash University in 2018 and received first class honours for both her MA (Research) and BA Honours in Political Studies from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Tanyag was selected as one of the inaugural International Studies Association (ISA) Emerging Global South Scholars in 2019, and as resident Women, Peace and Security Fellow at Pacific Forum in Hawaii in 2021.

Reviews
This is one of those books that smacks you upside the head and shifts your perspective in the best possible ways. Nuanced, theoretically rich, and highly informed, Tanyag weaves together a powerful narrative about the marginalization of sexual and reproductive health and rights in crisis situations. She illuminates an under-reported phenomenon and compellingly demonstrates why this matters for all of us. Tanyag's book is a very welcome addition to the emerging canon of feminist international relations. * Jeremy Youde, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Duluth *
Maria Tanyag's deep and contextualized enquiry into the persistent and pervasive inequalities in sexual and reproductive health and rights is an important contribution to feminist studies on the politics of bodily autonomy. Drawing on engaged research in the Philippines she shows how restrictions to bodily autonomy are integral to the prevailing neoliberal logics of power. Her critique offers powerful possibilities for regeneration at a time of prevailing crisis. * Wendy Harcourt, Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam *
Thought-provoking and insightful, this is a major contribution to our understanding of what explains pervasive inequalities in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). In this fine work solidly grounded in data, Maria Tanyag, tells the story of how bodily autonomy for Filipino women, like in many other contexts, is shaped by structural and ideological forces globally. I warmly recommend the book to anyone interested in the topics of global health, gender inequalities, conflict, and crisis. * Gudrun Ostby, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo *



Book Information
ISBN 9780197676332
Author Maria Tanyag
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 499g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 165mm * 25mm