W S 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nuclear Family, Population Control, Guttmacher Institute

• School: Iowa State University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: W S 201
• Professor: Alexia Shante Angton

Document Summary

It offers a view of wellness for individuals, communities, and the wider society based on the eradication of inequality, oppression, and injustice: comprehensive reproductive rights, invisibilization. What is health? (ooed: body functioning normally , selfishness, legal/social system = political, mental/moral, marginalization, personal responsibility, same rules for all, physical, mental, social, and cultural, historical and cross-cultural variations. Intersectionality matters, too: access or denial to services or information, pathologies may depend on social location, age of death, health/medical system = part of society, may reflect biases and beliefs, history and social location matter. Medical/health system and context: organs and bones are displaced and crushed, digestion and respiratory problems, uterus moved = pregnancy and childbirth risks, livers wrinkled because of corsets (gilgenkrantz 2013) Feminism, health, and reproduction: women"s bodies = sites of control, produce knowledge, acknowledge specificities, woman-friendly medical care and healthcare systems, environmental factors, redefine women"s sexuality, birth control, maternal and children"s health, empowerment.