Writing Prompt: Why is it essential to approach sexuality and reproductive health through an intersectional lens of analysis? How can public policies, educational programs, community health, and justice be improved/furthered when we are attentive to the complexity of identity and structural power? As part of your paper, be sure to: – Clearly define intersectionality – Ground your discussion in at least two examples that help illustrate that why intersectionality “matters” when it comes to issues of sexuality and/reproductive health – As part of your analysis, clearly demonstrate how intersectionality relates to power (i.e. point out privileges and/or oppressions rooted in gender, race, class, age, ability, etc.)
sources :
Women’s Sexual Health
- Kapsalis, Terry. Mastering the Female Pelvis: Race and the Tools of Reproduction. Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture, edited by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, U of Michigan, 2002. Click here for pdf.
- Julie N. Bergmann and Jamila K. Stockman. (2015). How Does Intimate Partner Violence Affect Condom and Oral Contraceptive Use in the United States? A Systematic Review of the Literature, Contraction, 91, 438-55. Click here for pdf.
- Christine Dehlendorf and Kelsey Holt. (2019). The Dangerous Rise of the IUD as Poverty Cure. New York Times. Click here for accessible document.
Sex Education
- Lorena Garcia. (2009). “‘NOW WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THAT?’ Heteronormativity, Sexism, and Racism in the Sexual (Mis)education of Latina Youth.” Gender & Society, 24 (4), 520-41. Click here for pdf.
- Maanvi Singh. (2015). NPR: Sex Ed Works Better When it Addresses Power in Relationships – click here to external link to short NPR article.Links to an external site.
Supplemental Readings
- Simone Weil Davis. (2002). “Loose Lips Sink Ships.” Feminist Studies, 28 (1). Weil. loose lips.pdf
- Michela Tindera. (2018). Gilead Said PrEP to Prevent HIV was ‘Not a Commercial Opportunity.’ Now It’s Running Ads for It. Forbes. Links to an external site.
- Jacob Anderson-Minshall. (2016). PrEP has Nothing to Do with Decline in Condom Use. Advocate. Links to an external site.
- Donald G. McNeil Jr. (2018). Grindr App to Offer H.I.V. Test Reminders. New York Times. Links to an external site.