WGS 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frontier Nursing Service, Maternal Death, Parental Leave

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 2240
• Professor: Johnson Rolanda

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Small group discussion: defining women"s health = an area of study that focuses on issues that are specific to women and the female body a. i. Politics of women"s health and women"s access to health a. iii. Complex issues b/c nothing is in isolation complex, interwoven issues: why is women"s health significant, barriers to women"s health c. i. Try to treat all women alike but we"re different c. iv. 1. a. Lesbian women health issues c. v. maternity leave c. vi. Lack of discussion taboo: history of the issue / have we made progress d. i. Over past decade have sort of reached a stalemate between the medical world and the religious world d. ii. 1. Scientific advances dented by societal push backs d. iii. Not as much progress in other nations not universal d. iv. History: 1830s/1840/s = popular health movement, 1861-1865: civil war b. i. Women gradually getting out of role of being in house b. ii.