Women's Studies (WMST) 303
Issues in Women's Health (Revision 3)

This version of WMST 303 closed March 9, 2004. To current version.

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Delivery mode: Individualized study. Video component.
Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: None
Centre: Centre for Work and Community Studies
Challenge for Credit: WMST 303 has a Challenge for Credit option.

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Overview

WMST 303 allows students to examine and apply a gender-based analysis to both global and specific heath issues, such as, menstruation and menopause, pregnancy, controlling fertility, violence, aging, and cancer. The course provides feminist overview of issues pertaining to women’s health and gender and health care in Canada. It also includes critical discussions of the medicalization of health care; systemic gender discrimination in health research and health care; the relationship between social and economic structure, gender, and the definition and maintenance of health and healing.

Outline

  • Unit 1 Gender, Health, and the Politics of Health Care
    • Section 1.1: Gender and the Politics of Women's Health: Reform and Revolution
    • Section 1.2: The Gender of Care Providers: Doctors, Nurses, and Community Care
  • Unit 2 Women's Reproductive Health and Health Care
    • Section 2.1: Menstruation and Menopause
    • Section 2.2: Sexual Health and Controlling Fertility
    • Section 2.3: Abortion
    • Section 2.4: Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Unit 3 Special Problems in Women's Health
    • Section 3.1: Health and Violence Against Women
    • Section 3.2: Women and Cancer
    • Section 3.3: Women, Health Care, and Aging
  • Unit 4 Women's Health and the Future
    • Section 4.1: Gender, Health, and the Environment

Evaluation

To receive credit for WMST 303, students must achieve a course composite mark of at least "D" (50 percent). The weighting of the composite mark is as follows:

Telephone or e-mail review of the first three units
Mid-term Essay
A final
at-home exam
Total
20%
40%
40%
100%

Course Materials

Textbook

Boston Women's Health Collective, Our Bodies Ourselves. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1998.

Other Material

In addition to the textbook, course materials include a Study Guide, Student Manual, and a Book of Readings.

Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice.
Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.

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