Women's Studies 2244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Homicide, Heterosexism, Potlatch
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A common theme emerging from this week"s readings in relation to women"s. Multiple and intersecting forms of oppression rarely inform health policy or practice. Intersecting risks of violence and hiv for aboriginal women (varcoe and dick): Study on relationship between ipv and hiv. Historical (colonization, cultural disruption) and economic (rural poverty) contexts of risk render some women particularly vulnerable to hiv risk and violence. The social and economic environments in which people live and that determine their health. Examples of social determinants include housing, job security, working conditions, education, income, social class, gender, aboriginal status [colonization], and the social safety net. Sdh reflect the quantity and quality of resources that society makes available to its members. Recap intersectionality: of health, suffering and health care. Intersectional analyses look at multiple axes of power and oppression (e. g. class, gender, race") and how they influence one another to create particular experiences identities and with social determinants of health (e. g. , class, income, race ,