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Women’s Health Movements: A Global Force for Change, by M. Turshen. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, October 2007.
“The Impact of Civil War on Women and Children” in Security, Reconstruction and Reconciliation: When the Wars End, edited by Muna Ndulo, 85-96. London” University College London Press, 2006.
“The European Commission Considers Gender and Security” Review of African Political Economy 2006, 108:358-367.
The Aftermath: Women in Post-conflict Transformation, edited by S. Meintjes, A. Pillay and M. Turshen. London: Zed Books, 2002
M. Turshen, ed. African Women's Health. Princeton: Africa World Press, 2000
M. Turshen. Privatizing Health Services in Africa. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999
M. Turshen & C. Twagiramariya, eds. What Women do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa. London: Zed Books, 1998
“Contested Claims and Individual Bodies” in Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus, edited by G. C. Bond and N. Gibson, 365-378. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002
“The Political Economy of Rape: An Analysis of Systematic Rape and Sexual Abuse of Women during Armed Conflict in Africa” in Victors, Perpetrators or Actors: Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence, edited by C. Moser and F. Clarke, 55-68. London: Zed Books, 2001

Meredeth Turshen is a Professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Her research interests include international health and she specializes in public health policy. She has written four books, The Political Ecology of Disease in Tanzania (1984), The Politics of Public Health (1989), and Privatizing Health Services in Africa (1999), all published by Rutgers University Press, and Women's Health Movements: A Global Force for Change (2007) published by Palgrave Macmillan; she has edited five other books, Women and Health in Africa (Africa World Press, 1991), Women's Lives and Public Policy: The International Experience (Greenwood, 1993), What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa (Zed Books, 1998), which was translated into French (L'Harmattan, 2001), African Women's Health (Africa World Press, 2000) and The Aftermath: Women in Postconflict Transformation (Zed Books, 2002). She serves on the Board of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, as Treasurer of the Committee for Health in Southern Africa, as contributing editor of the Review of African Political Economy, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Health Policy.