WOMENSTD 220 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bell Hooks, National Institutes Of Health, Androcentrism

• School: U of M
• Department: Womens Studies
• Course: WOMENSTD 220
• Professor: Joanne Bailey

Document Summary

Sex: biological classification of living things as male/female according to their reproductive organs and functions assigned by chromosomal complement. Gender: a person"s self-representation as man or woman or who that person is responded to by social institutions based on the individual"s gender presentation -- often rooted in biology and is shaped by environment and experience. Health: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity. Freedom from fear of war, political will, useful role in society, education and housing, food/water/sanitation, public support, secure work, equal opportunity. Key strategy of the women"s health movement: take back our bodies, gain access to information and expand knowledge. Our bodies ourselves was an extremely radical publication. Repetitively made the issue of not looking at race/class. Early research about women didn"t include very many women the movement was supposed to be inclusive of all women, but it wasn"t.