WOMEN'S STUDIES 204 - The Politics of Health

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Hobart William Smith Colleges

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Description:

This course introduces students to the historical context of critical studies of health, especially health and the politics of race, gender, and sexuality. Beginning with conceptions of sex and sexuality from the Greeks and Freud, students consider the invention of new systems of classification for race and gender within the medical sciences. The course examines hormone research in the 20th century and its relationship to the American Eugenics Movement, the history of childbirth, and the changing context of reproductive rights in the early 20th century. Students explore how gender affects health treatment, the history of the reproductive rights movement, the origins of birth control and the politics of sterilization and safer sex education, the Women's Health Movement, and AIDS activism since 1980. Prerequisite: WMST 100 or permission of instructor. (Redick)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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