WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Millennium Development Goals, Obstetric Fistula, Sexual Sterilization Act Of Alberta

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

Essays due end of lecture on march 24th. Attach graded essay proposal, grading rubric (now posted on sakai). Upload essay to assignment2 by 11:59pm on march 24th to avoid additional late marks. Effectively used six readings, 5 course and 1 outside. Do not just cite, but also explain author"s importance to your paper. See handout beatrix posted on sakai for more information. *sexual sterilization act: maternal mortality, direct and indirect causes of obstetric death. 2: fistulas, discrimination to death, three reasons women/girls at risk for hiv & aids. Introduction: having control over one"s health is a fundamental right, women and girls cannot control their own health if they cannot control their own bodies, sexuality, and reproductive capacities. 3. health is a feminist issue because it underscores the personal is political and the politics of the body: history of colonialism, exploitation, racism, sexism, have rendered many of the world"s women vulnerable.