EWS 441 - Women, Health, and Social Justice (4)

This course will examine the centrality of health issues to women’s political movements and the threats to health posed by one’s gender, racial, and economic status. This course will also investigate concrete contemporary controversies over genital and cosmetic surgery, abortion, anorexia, and sexually transmitted diseases–and the ways that public health problems are barometers of injustice. Course fulfills GE Interdisciplinary Synthesis C4 or D4.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of courses in Areas A and D, sub-areas 1,2 and 3.
Component(s): 2 two-hour lecture/ discussion.