HLTC02H3 Lecture Notes - Breast Cancer, Identity Politics, Heterosexuality
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Lecture 12(11): women"s health issues- hiv/aids & breast cancer. 2012-04-02: hiv/aids, breast cancer, raimondo (2007) women and hiv/aids, gendered social construction of hiv/aids, invisibility/visibility of women, vulnerability: gender differences. Isolation of certain groups of people and geographic locations s/a the african continent (creation a geography of the disease) Drew attention to social contexts of women"s lives. Vulnerability provided a better understanding b/w gender and subjective experience of women. Highlighted global gender inequalities in accessing medication and other forms of treatment. Poor colonies had increased risk for hiv/aids: women and girls are often invisible. No social and health infrastructure in poor countries and women don"t tend to have power. The report presumes heterosexuality and does not produce ways in women trying to protect themselves. Aboriginal women in canada: demands to do something about racism and help reduce the vulnerability to hiv/aids and other chronic diseases. Women"s subordinate position tends to increase the vulnerability to.