Health and
Reproductive Rights
Family
Systems, Family Lives
Read: Chapters 6 and Chapter 7
View: Video 4
Write: (2) Blog Entries
Write:
Term paper
Paper due by 5 p.m. on July 18. Please use Turn it In Link on Blackboard.
Chapter 6:
Health and Reproductive Rights
Key concepts in Chapter 6 include health, wellness, systems
of inequality and privilege, androcentrism, medicalization, stereotypes, global
capitalism, environmental racism, environmental justice, fertility, voluntary
motherhood, contraception, forced sterilization, pregnancy crisis centers,
eugenics, sexually transmitted diseases and abortion. By the time you finish
this chapter, you should be able to understand the connections between systems
of privilege and inequality, and health and reproductive issues.
You will find a link below to the National Organization for
Women’s fact sheet on historical highlights on reproductive rights.
http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/roe30/timeline.html
Chapter 7:
Family Systems, Family Lives
Key concepts in Chapter 7 include family, institutions,
global economy, militarism, imperialism, kinship, monogamy, polygamy, polygyny,
polyandry, nuclear family, extended family, multigenerational families, family
values, lesbian families, conflict, love, divorce, masculine privilege in
families, models of family structure, parenting, mothering, lesbian mothering,
Defense of Marriage Act and poverty. Below you will find a link to the NOW’s
fact sheet on Motherhood. As you review these materials, think about the
messages about gender you received in your family when you were growing up.
Blog Entries This Week:
July 16: Health and
reproductive rights question
What
are the politics involved with contraceptive/birth control access and usage?
July 18: Family systems and family lives question
Explain
the difference between family as institution and family as experience.
