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Women's Studies (WMST) 303
Issues in Women's Health (Revision 4)

WMST 303 closed, replaced by WGST 303.

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Delivery mode: Individualized study, video component.

Credits: 3 - Social Science

Prerequisite: None

Precluded course: None

Centre: Centre for Work and Community Studies

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


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Evaluation

To receive credit for WMST 303, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least "D" (50 percent). The weighting of the composite grade 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%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbook

Boston Women's Health Collective, Our Bodies Ourselves. New York, Simon and Schuster, 2005.

Other materials

In addition to the textbook, the course materials include a study guide, course manual and assignments, and a reading file..

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