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Gender And Women's Studies 103 with Alonso at University of Wisconsin - Madison

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By: Avery Redlitz
Textbook:

Biology of Women

Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women
Women's Health: Readings on Social, Economic, and Political Issues
Created: 2011-11-10
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cultural warping of childbirth

- w/holding disadvantages of obstetrical meds

- requiring hospital birth, homes just as adequate

- induction of labor

- separation from families during labor

- bed confinement

- shaving birth area

- dependence on drugs rather than emotional support for pain

- delaying birth until physician arrives

- requiring lithotomy position

- anesthesia during delivery

- forceps in delivery

- episiotomy (enlarging vag)

- delaying breast feeding

- formula or water before first breast feeding

- prevent early father contact

latina agenda for reproductive justice

- 1/3 lack health care provider

- higher incidence of preventable diseases because of lack of access and information

- caused by poverty, low insurance rates, language barriers

- restrictions on child bearing and access to abortions

- National latina institute for repro health=

- expansion of emergency contraception

the political context for women of color organizing

- anti abortion mvmnt and the new right

- people trying to restrict abortion after roe vs wade. more difficult for women of color

-feminist mvmnt= pro choice, reproductive rights, womens health mvmnt

- pro choice synched with regaen admin and repub stance on pro family

- mvmnts struggled with differences in race, ethnicity, class, and sex orientation

- development of of local coaltitions and repro rights for women of color

the color of choice

- white supremacy, choose the pop control to benefit them and not people of color or lower econ status,

- abc program for aids is ineffective because doesnt take other forced sexual activity into consideration

- family planning more involved with colored women

- restricing repro rights, inequality and unequal distribution all attribute to over pop

the pill may not mix well with other drugs

- mixing drugs varies from girl to girl,

- should be aware of risks and talk to doc to make right combo

- communication with doc is important

dangerous combo

Direct to consumer advertising= increases prescription rates, sales growth and consumer spending on drugs
not heavily monitered, misleading, benefits outweigh costs
young women view media as good sex health info
abstinence only edu means that girls rely on media more
number one drug targeted at women
highlight effects other than contraception
seasonale: perceive periods as debilitation
little racial diversity

to bleed or not to bleed

different medications can stop periods altogether, yet they have complication
stigma against bleeding, why do we want to stop it altogether

can still become pregnant

selling of pms

- medicalizing the "syndrome" as something to be fixed

The business of being born

- US midwives attend < 8% births

- medical profession convinced women dont know how to give birth

- US second worst IMR

- Midwives get bad rep as dirty and unqualified

- hospitals business, want beds filled and emptied--> greater chance of induction

- accustomed to plastic surgery so why not C section

La operacion

- repro rights vs repro justice

- PR lab for repro tech testing

- diff b/t repro right (choice) as birth control and repro justice through pop control

- sterilization of women workers,

- pop reduction official policy in PR