medicalization Archive

  • Though I’m sure this is not an experience unique to me, I found myself, in reading stories of women writing their bodies in Stories of Illness and Healing, making connections to my own illnesses and experiences with the world of medicine. As I have said in previous posts, I have Type 1 […]

    PWD Part 1: Writing My Body

    Though I’m sure this is not an experience unique to me, I found myself, in reading stories of women writing their bodies in Stories of Illness and Healing, making connections to my own illnesses and experiences with the world of medicine. As I have said in previous posts, I have Type 1 […]

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  • I was inspired to write this post by a chapter in  Cyberfeminism 2.0 – “Beyond Democratization and Subversion: Rethinking Feminist Analytical Approaches to Girls’ Cultural Production on the Internet” by Rosalind Sibielski. Sibielski, talking specifically about the production of fan videos by girls recreating Twilight (if you haven’t heard of this series, […]

    Feminism and Health in The Hunger Games

    I was inspired to write this post by a chapter in  Cyberfeminism 2.0 – “Beyond Democratization and Subversion: Rethinking Feminist Analytical Approaches to Girls’ Cultural Production on the Internet” by Rosalind Sibielski. Sibielski, talking specifically about the production of fan videos by girls recreating Twilight (if you haven’t heard of this series, […]

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  • While reading the first three chapters of Sandra Morgan’s book Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States, I was struck by a statemnent about the Jane Collective: “That’s how they thought abortions ought to be done: by women, for women, as acts of liberation and empowerment. [Emphasis […]

    Abortion as Liberation?

    While reading the first three chapters of Sandra Morgan’s book Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States, I was struck by a statemnent about the Jane Collective: “That’s how they thought abortions ought to be done: by women, for women, as acts of liberation and empowerment. [Emphasis […]

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  • Click here to see a lovely diagram, entitled “Republican Guide to the Female Body,” posted by Nerve (an online magazine). This is, in visual form, the exact opposite of “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” It’s a guide written by men for women, with misinformation and lies, designed to make women feel anxious, […]

    42 Years, No Change?

    Click here to see a lovely diagram, entitled “Republican Guide to the Female Body,” posted by Nerve (an online magazine). This is, in visual form, the exact opposite of “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” It’s a guide written by men for women, with misinformation and lies, designed to make women feel anxious, […]

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