Sex, Health, and Feminism in Trans-Pacific World

Sex, Health, and Feminism in Trans-Pacific World

This senior seminar Health, Sex, and Feminism in the Trans-Pacific World explores issues of gender, sexuality, and health/illness in the contexts of nation states, colonialism, and post-colonialism, with a focus on four pertinent areas of conflict and controversy in the trans-Pacific world in the twentieth century: 1) prostitution and the regulation of women’s sexuality in America, Japan, and China in the 1920s and 1930s, 2) cultural, social, and medical conflicts that arose out of the Nuclear Age, 3) women’s health, birth control, and reproduction in America, China, and India, and their cultural and political ramifications in the mid-century, 4) HIV/AIDS epidemic in America, China, and India and its impact on health disparity and human rights since the 1980s.

Wake, Naoko

English

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