PDF-(READ)-Diversity and Women\'s Health (A Feminist Formations Reader)

Once focusing solely on reproduction and reproductive matters the study of womens health has expanded to include cardiovascular disease breast cancer colorectal cancer and osteoporosis The United States has established an office dedicated to researching womens health issues and the Womens Health Initiative has begun collecting data on the prevention of diseases common among women Yet the health care issues affecting diverse groups of women have remained underfunded and understudiedDiversity and Womens Health calls attention to this glaring discrepancy and presents cuttingedge research on womens health from a feminist perspective The contributors argue that the health issues specific to lesbians elderly women women of color immigrant women and disabled women must become a central part of the broader conversation on womens health in the United StatesEssays in this collection highlight the disparities in diagnosis and treatment among women because of their race ethnicity sexual orientation disability and age from both medical and womens studies perspectivesIn reviewing the history of feminist scholarship on health care the contributors to this volume show how bringing a feminist perspective to biomedical research will address the health care needs of marginalized groups in the United States. Sheffield Hallam University. The struggle for sexism. 1. Background sexism. 2. .Aims. To examine the struggles around sexism overall recently. To examine the ways that political correctness is used as an offensive term. : Reading Contemporary . Fiction. Feminism and Literature. Feminism and Contemporary Culture. Feminism and Literature. Lecture Content. “Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions.. for safety on the streets… for child care, for social welfare… for rape crisis . English 151W. Feminist Theory . What is Feminism ?. http://. www.youtube.com/watch?v. =3YA13GNT8Mc&feature=related. Feminist Theory. An extension of feminism’s critique of male power and ideology, feminist theory combines elements of other theoretical models such as . Notes on the Feminist Approach. Feminism is an evolving philosophy .. The basis of the movement, both in literature and society, is that the Western world is fundamentally patriarchal(created by men, ruled by men, viewed through the eyes of men, and judged by men).. “Frailty, thy name is woman!”. What is feminism?. Feminism is “the . drive to achieve rights and equality for women in social, political and economic life. .”. “Feminism . is not necessarily anti-men, but is against sexism: the beliefs and practices which structure and maintain the subordination and oppression of women. Theories. Utilizing the Metaphor of a Critical Lens. Reader Response. Talking to the Text. Read Aloud. Part 1. A theory provides an angle or perspective you will take when you look at a text.. Each lens is a view point or opinion. . Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. bell hooks. Jeff Herr. EDU 8306- Diversity Frameworks. June 23, 2012. Transgress- to go beyond, to exceed established limits. Revolutionary. by Ray Bradbury. Literature terms to review. Conflict-struggle between opposing forces (internal/external). Mood-the feeling or atmosphere a writer creates for readers. Symbol-an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.. Gender. Rethinking the History of Ethical Theory. Women’s voices have been . excluded . from the canon.. Autonomous man . – an ethics of strangers, odd from a feminist perspective.. Social contract theory . What is Feminist Literary Criticism?. Definition…. Feminist criticism is concerned with the . impact of gender . on writing and reading.. Gender versus Biological Sex. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women. Consider developments in historical, social, and gender perceptions that make women's voices worth studying. . What does “women’s liberation” mean to you? . Charlotte Perkins Gilman. -born in 1860. The basis of the feminist . movements, both . in literature and politics, is . that Western . culture is . fundamentally patriarchal . (i.e., created by . men, controlled . by men, viewed through . the eyes . , Aidan, . and Sean . McC. . . Definition. Feminist criticism is a type of literary criticism focusing on the role of women in literature.. Centering on the style in which the piece is written, and the way it relates to women. Tulsa Law Review Volume 25 Issue 4 Symposium on Feminist Jurisprudence Summer 1990 eminist Jurisprudence: An Analysis of Oklahoma eminist Jurisprudence: An Analysis of Oklahoma Seduction Statute