Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cervical Cap, Fallopian Tube, Exogamy

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2163A/B
• Professor: Nicole Edwards

Document Summary

Women studies lecture 2 rethinking bumps, births, and breastfeeding. Be able to discuss the history of sexual education and specific knowledge at given time periods. Identify intersections of race, class and more impact messages regarding sex, relationships, etc. Recognize importance of changing technologies and representations of sex-related information. Punishment for being sexual = pregnancy: scare tactic to not have sex. Over half the population has potential to get pregnant, other half will deal with the ramifications of potential pregnancies. Understanding the birth and birthing processes are related to sexual tendencies. Women are fertile during ovulation: sperm can last in the fallopian tubes up to 7 days, span of when you"re fertile varies dramatically. Sperm needs destructive mechanism to break down defenses of the egg some evidence that it is not like this. Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have. Npr radio clip: no one knew the evidence for why the earth rotated around the sun.