A welcome book to the peace research and global health fields.... [T]he ambitious volume successfully broadens the discourse in peace research by exploring the intertwined domains of feminist peace research and global health....Taken together, the contributions demonstrate that definitions of violence used in Peace Research using a feminist perspective are particularly relevant for Global Health. The volume touches on some of the extensive work that has been developed by global health researchers who helped to push this agenda forward in the health domain.... The contributors to this volume highlight how using a gender lens is fundamental to addressing the complicated relationship between global health and violence.... The chapters in this book offer a starting point for peace researchers on how to approach health and violence, and in line with its feminist principles, indicate how this research can be used to bring about change.

LSE Review of Books

This collection of essays edited by Tiina Vaittinen and Catia C. Confortini is packed with sophisticated insights that look beyond the usual securitisation lens. Through case studies and conceptual work, the book reveals the complexity and significance of the subject; it is highly recommended.

Roger MacGinty, Professor in Defence, Development and Diplomacy, University of Durham, UK

One of the most important collections of essays on global health to be published in recent years. It makes at least three notable contributions. First, it shifts the focus towards concrete violences and experiences of vulnerability, bringing fresh insights to a field of studies where macro-level analyses and the voices of the powerful are often prevalent. Second, the volume shows the crucial importance of seeing violence in global health as gendered, demonstrating that the future of the global health literature must also be feminist. Finally, the volume's engagement with the (rich but long-neglected) body of work in Peace Research is a watershed that, I think, will shape the trajectory of global health scholarship.

João Nunes, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of York, UK

This powerful volume breaks new ground in bridging the fields of global health policy and peace studies, viewed through a distinctive feminist lens. In a series of case studies from around the world, contributors describe the varieties of everyday violence experienced by women in diverse contexts. Theoretically rich and empirically evocative, sometimes chilling.

Ted Schrecker, Professor of Global Health Policy, Newcastle University, UK

This volume brings together a wide variety of diverse voices and leading scholars to shine a light on a woefully-understudied subject. Mixing keen theoretical insights with incredible empirical richness, these chapters illuminate why global health—and international relations more broadly—needs to take questions of gender and violence much more seriously. This will be an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners.

Jeremy Youde, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

In this excellent contribution to the field of Feminist Peace Studies, Vaittinen and Confortini, along with the contributors to this edited volume, manage to show that global health concerns should be at the core of peace research. It is explicit in insisting on a feminist approach to the research, which not only demands that both fields take seriously the complexities of gender and sexualities, but also embraces the normative principle that the aim of knowledge creation should not only be to understand, but also to provide the foundation from which to enact change. Consequently, the individual case studies contribute to our understanding of HIV/AIDS, sexual and gender-based violence, reproductive rights and more, while they allow us to explore the entanglements and compounding effects of direct and structural, symbolic and epistemic violences – and how gender shapes these. Read it.

Annick T. R. Wibben, Anna Lindh Professor for Gender, Peace and Security, Swedish Defence University