Medicalization, industrial modernity, and progress have brought forth new innovations that directly impact women. Birth control methods have become widespread. Pregnancy has become a prevalent topic o…
Reproductive health
More than 50 years after the first contraceptive pill became available to Australian women, research into new contraceptives has come to a grinding halt and women are still stuck with modified version…
Imagine you and your mom are having an awkward conversation in the doctor's office. You're checked out by the doctor, and he asks you a few questions. When the doctor asks you if you are sexually acti…
You and your significant other have been trying to conceive for two years now. You have been eating a healthy diet, taking folic acid vitamins daily, and you have been physically active two to three t…
Have you ever heard of PCOS? If so, then you may know the struggles of PCOS. I, like many other women, suffer from PCOS. PCOS runs in my family and has affected us for many generations. PCOS is a type…
Far too many girls today do not have access to forms of birth control due to lack of accessibility and the outrageous price tag. Birth control is the active choice to use contraceptives to prevent pre…
It is often said that "when you go to college, you will find your group". The proper word for "your group" is a discourse community. Many people join discourse communities throughout their lives and m…
Summary of the Article The article is about the eugenics movement that happened around the 1930s. This movement is for the theory of selective reproduction in a belief that it will hypothetically imp…
Women and men of all ages are not immune to the human papillomavirus, often referred to as HPV; in fact, research indicates that about 80 million Americans suffer from this deadly virus ("About HPV- H…
We all know what contraceptives are and that there are various uses, but the most looking use we are most looking for is not getting pregnant for X reason that we have. Often, we are not very well inf…