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WMST270

Women and Health: Historical and Comparative Perspectives WMST270 SP

Crosslistings: HIST295, SISP270

Section	Class Size	*Available	Times	POI	Prereq
1	20	0	Times: .T.T... 1:10PM-2:30PM;	No	No

*The number of spaces listed as available is based on class seats open for the Blue Add phase of registration. Some seats may be taken in previous phases while others may be held out for subsequent phases of registration. (Last Updated on Tue Aug 10 05:00:21 EDT 1999 )

This course introduces students to the history of women and medicine from the Middle Ages to the present, centering on North America and western Europe but exploring recent scholarship on other times and places. We will explore how women functioned as health-care providers -- as domestic healers, nurses, physicians, and midwives. We also will examine the history of women as patients: how did women experience health and illness in the past? what expectations and norms shaped that experience? We will discuss how medical knowledge about women changed, how ideas about gender were constructed by the medical professions, and the process by which race, class, and gender become salient for making social distinctions between different groups of women in their social roles as providers and/or patients. Among the topics we will consider include early modern views of women's bodies, maternal and child welfare policies, the racial politics of birth control, the labor movement in nursing and the experiences of immigrant and poor women in seeking access to medical care in Europe and the United States. The format of the course is lecture and discussion.

MAJOR READINGS

Margaret Llewelyn Davies, MATERNITY:
LETTERS FROM WORKING WOMEN
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A MIDWIFE'S TALE
Darlene Clark Hine, ed., BLACK WOMEN IN THE NURSING
PROFESSION: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Regina Morantz-Sanchez, SYMPATHY AND SCIENCE
Judith W. Leavitt, ed., WOMEN AND HEALTH IN AMERICA:
HISTORICAL READINGS
Zora Neale Hurston, THE SANCTIFIED CHURCH
Emily Martin, THE WOMAN IN THE BODY

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Midterm, two written assignments, a journal and final paper.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture Seminar Film Screenings

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS HIST

Prerequisites: None

Section 01: Tucker, J; Times: .T.T... 1:10PM- 2:30PM;; Grading Mode: A/F; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 2, So: 0, Fr: 0; Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-22-1999

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