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Describes the power relations by which some categories of people are empowered to nurture and reproduce, while others are disempowered.
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) reformers saw themselves as the “female moral authority” in cleaning up the public sphere defile by prostitutes. The moralizing of reformers reinforced class divisions between the upper and lower class. Underlying goals was to regulate the public and private divide between privileged and working class citizens Reformers sought to instruct working class women how to “labor”.
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Social reformers directed attention to prostitution outside of the U.S. mainland. Identified US military bases as promoting and condoning prostitution for the “sexual health” of the virile masculine soldier. To gain public support, social reformers identified the prostitute as a victim.
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The Colonial Regulation of Sexuality
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Cold War politics reinforced fear of social unrest Increased population growth viewed as harmful to the nation. Popular culture (tv, video, magazines, newspapers, movies) equated increased births to nuclear time bomb. New social scientific studies in 1950s reveal how increased population growth as beneficial to overall health of the nation. New findings compel a shift from identifying populations to individual families.
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Teen Mother Illegal Immigrant
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Juridical-legislative Capital Finance Labor The Media The Police/Military
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According to Tapia, what is the purpose and function of PRP’s ads? How was “sex” deployed in the ads? How did the location of the ads serve to target particular populations?
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Discuss the possible long-term impacts of Norplant in exacerbating health inequalities across race today. How would the feminist intersectional and biobehavioral paradigm view the effectiveness of Norplant?
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