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Gender, Health and Marginalization Through a Critical Feminist Lens

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesWGS.645
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2019English
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In the course we will use a feminist interdisciplinary lens and invite students to look critically at how practices like privatization, shrinking public “safety nets”, de-regulation, and the commodification of health services intersect inevitably with gender, race and class, for both men and women. We will draw on a blend of empirical studies, policy materials, films and guest speakers to examine specific health issues like menstrual health, corporate obstetrics, abortion, obesity, intersex…

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