MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'feminism & gender'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:33:02 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5069423&cid=t_369889_87_f&fid=36088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbodiesourblog.org%2Fblog%2F2011%2F07%2Fhowdy-from-down-here-colbert-on-summers-eve-and-ads-for-clean-men Have you seen the Summer’s Eve videos featuring vaginal puppeteering (by way of a talking hand) asking for more V-love? The videos promote using scented cleansing and deodorant products to freshen your vagina. Let’s get one thing straight up front: Vaginas don’t need cover-up. In fact, douches and other scented products are more likely to cause irritation and infection. The vagina is very good at cleaning itself, so if Summer’s Eve really believed in its tagline, “Hail to the V,” it would leave our vaginas alone. But making money off women’s insecurities about their bodies never grows old for Summer’s Eve. Its newest ads targeting black and Latina women play on racial and ethnic stereotypes in addition to playing on women’s insecuriti... Our Bodies Our Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5069423 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:02:11 +0100 5069423 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008119&cid=t_369889_87_f&fid=36088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbodiesourblog.org%2Fblog%2F2011%2F07%2Ftonight-the-consequences-of-choosing-boys-over-girls Boston area readers may be interested in an event happening tonight at the Cambridge Hospital: Mara Hvistendahl, author of “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men” will be speaking about her new book. Mara will be joined by OBOS executive director Judy Norsigian, who will be highlighting some of the reproductive rights-related work of OBOS’ global partners and speaking about the forthcoming edition of “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” The event begins at 8 p.m. and will take place at the Learning Center A/B on the 3rd floor of The Cambridge Hospital, 1493 Cambridge Street. Hope to see some of you there! (Source: Our Bodies Our Blog) Our Bodies Our Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008119 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:21:26 +0100 5008119 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4241698&cid=t_369889_87_f&fid=36088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbodiesourblog.org%2Fblog%2F2010%2F12%2Frally-for-girls-sports-and-community When discussing how sports benefits girls — which many of us are doing today as part of the National Women’s Law Center Rally for Girls’ Sports Day — I keep coming back to the idea of community. While sports certainly has many individual health and social benefits for girls, it also gives girls a space to develop relationships based on teamwork and respect. Bolstered by their team, girls are able to step in front of their larger school community and exude confidence and pride that might be missing in other parts of their lives. Girls’ relationships with that larger community, however, are often complicated when schools in underserved neighborhoods have trouble providing girls (and all athletes, for that matter) with a safe space in which to perform. Here in C... Our Bodies Our Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4241698 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:01:21 +0100 4241698 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4139209&cid=t_369889_87_f&fid=36088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbodiesourblog.org%2Fblog%2F2010%2F11%2Fshare-your-story-what-have-you-learned-about-your-body-from-a-womens-health-nurse-practitioner-or-other-ob-gyn-clinician Our Bodies Ourselves recently received a wonderful picture of pre-teen girls watching one of their moms get a pelvic exam, complete with mirror and flashlight, along with a note about how the nurse-practitioner conducting the exam explained everything that was being done in simple, straightforward language. As a way to underscore how much young women across the country are able to learn about their bodies through such critically important show-and-tell learning, we are inviting women to share with us (anonymously is fine) stories of how nurse-practitioners and other ob-gyn clinicians (including nurse-midwives, family physicians and obstetrician-gynecologists) have taken the time to teach them more about their bodies through use of speculums (some with flashlights built in!) and mirrors, pa... Our Bodies Our Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4139209 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:02:13 +0100 4139209 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4060553&cid=t_369889_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Ffeel%2Fyet-another-reason-to-hate-the-term-cougar%2F This commercial is the perfect example of why we think the term cougar should be buried alive, along with it’s Botox and martinis. And why is every so-called cougar in the ad for this dating service under 25?  We didn’t know that one 30-second commercial could trigger our gag reflex so many times. via The Frisky Post from: BlissTree Yet Another Reason to Hate the Term Cougar (Source: Healthbolt) Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4060553 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:46:12 +0100 4060553 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3740575&cid=t_369889_87_f&fid=36088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbodiesourblog.org%2Fblog%2F2010%2F07%2Fall-things-not-being-equal Gretchen Reynolds, writing for the Well blog at The New York Times, reports that gender still matters a great deal in health research. It’s just difficult for some scientists to remember that. Reynolds focuses on a pair of studies by David Rowlands, MD, a senior lecturer with the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health at Massey University in New Zealand, in which he attempted to determine the importance of protein in the recovery from hard exercise. The first study, completed in 2008, involved only male cyclists and found that ingesting protein had a significant long-term effect on overall athletic performance. After Rowlands published those results, which were in line with conventional wisdom, female cyclists asked him to include them in any further studies. To his credit, he... Our Bodies Our Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3740575 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:42:26 +0100 3740575 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3690813&cid=t_369889_87_f&fid=36088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbodiesourblog.org%2Fblog%2F2010%2F06%2Ffinding-what-is-there-a-medical-ethics-challenge Several prominent blogs have recently covered the story, first reported by Alice Dreger and Ellen K. Feder at  Bioethics Forum, of pediatric urologist Dix Poppas and his research involving clitoral surgery on young girls and young intersex patients to make their genitals less “masculinized” — that is, less large. The research, conducted at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, is troublesome for a number of reasons, including lack of indication of an underlying medical problem. In each case, the clitoris was deemed simply  too large, whatever that might have meant to the girls’ parents or the girls’ physicians. Not only are the surgeries, as well as the accompanying attitudes and ethics, hugely problematic, but there ... Our Bodies Our Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3690813 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:00:33 +0100 3690813 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3671657&cid=t_369889_87_f&fid=36088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbodiesourblog.org%2Fblog%2F2010%2F06%2Fthe-politics-of-fathering Nancy Chodorow’s “The Reproduction of Mothering” was an instant feminist classic when it was published in 1978. One of the most visionary conclusions was her call for men to take an equal role in the caretaking of children. If they don’t, she argued, women would grow up with a distorted perspective on their own relationships with men. More than 30 years later, Chodorow’s call appears as challenging as ever — at least in the United States, where parental leave is still unpaid (putting us behind 177 nations, including Haiti and Afghanistan, that provide all women, and in some cases men, income and time off after the birth of a child) and only 12 weeks long, which discourages even willing men from taking over child-rearing duties. Four years before the publ... Our Bodies Our Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3671657 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:37:06 +0100 3671657 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3610316&cid=t_369889_87_f&fid=36088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbodiesourblog.org%2Fblog%2F2010%2F05%2Fwork-by-artist-kaucyila-brooke-censored-at-bucharest-biennale When Los Angeles-based artist Joanne Mitchell wrote to us with news of the removal of a gender-oriented work from the Bucharest International Biennale, we asked her to share the information with readers. Joanne’s piece “Our bodies, ourselves – the book, I mean” will be showcased as part of the organization’s 40th-anniversary celebration in 2011. By Joanne Mitchell The Bucharest International Biennale opened last week without “Tit for Twat,” a 20-year long, ongoing project made by a former teacher of mine, the artist Kaucyila Brooke. “Tit for Twat” is a three-part epic that takes the form of photo montage, and re-imagines the creation story from the perspective of two lesbian protagonists (view it here). It is intelligent, challenging work, ... Our Bodies Our Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3610316 Fri, 28 May 2010 20:41:33 +0100 3610316 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3479656&cid=t_369889_87_f&fid=36088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbodiesourblog.org%2Fblog%2F2010%2F04%2Fohio-campus-organizer-shirley-kailas View all Women’s Health Heroes nominees. Who’s your hero? Submit here. Entrant: Kelsey Chapman Nominee: Shirley Kailas When I arrived at Kenyon College, in the middle of nowhere Ohio, I was another insecure freshman girl who hated her body and was afraid to speak out. Luckily, I happened to become involved with campus organizations filled with wonderful and powerful women who helped me find my voice and speak out against sexism and sexual assault, eating disorders and the thin ideal, and many other important feminist health issues. During this time, I met one particular woman who changed not only my life, but those of everyone around her. At first I was intimidated by Shirley Kailas, an outgoing, beautiful, smart and powerful feminist. She was the president of Epsilon Delta Mu when I m... Our Bodies Our Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3479656 Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:23:54 +0100 3479656 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3475792&cid=t_369889_87_f&fid=36088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbodiesourblog.org%2Fblog%2F2010%2F04%2Fthe-power-of-female-beauty-dr-nick-karras-and-dr-sayaka-adachi View all Women’s Health Heroes nominees. Who’s your hero? Submit here. Entrant: Dr. Srividya Nair Nominees: Dr. Nick Karras and Dr. Sayaka Adachi A woman’s identity is indelibly linked with her sexuality; historically and currently, it is under attack in nearly every arena. We are left feeling inadequate and ugly no matter what role we are assigned by society. And yet it seems we are less aware of our sexuality and beauty now than in any other time. Told by endless number of pseudo pundits that we must look like her or have that body to be sexy, it is difficult to have confidence in our selves and our bodies. The work that Drs. Nick Karras and Sayaka Adachi are doing as sexologists is profound and enduring. They have published a book, “Petals,” and an accompanying DV... Our Bodies Our Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3475792 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:32:28 +0100 3475792 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3153442&cid=t_369889_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F01%2F08%2Fulaw-tv-brenda-cossman%2F Brenda Cossman is a Professor of Law, at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Her teaching and research is in the area of family law, feminist theory, law and film, and sexuality and the law. Her most recent book on Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging was published by Stanford University Press in 2007. She recently published a fascinating article, titled “The ‘Opt Out Revolution’ and the Changing Narratives of Motherhood: Self Governing the Work/Family Conflict” in the 2009 volume of the Utah Law Review.  Here’s the abstract. * * * “The double shift,” “the glass ceiling,” “the mommy track”: Women’s efforts to balance work and family have given rise to a host of buzz words over... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3153442 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:01:56 +0100 3153442 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1806138&cid=t_369889_109_f&fid=35451&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jung-at-heart.com%2Fjung_at_heart%2Fmad_not_bad.html This study attempted to explore if this gender difference is explained by biases in the forensic psychiatric assessments. Participants were 45 practicing forensic psychiatric clinicians, 46 chief judges and 80 psychology students. Participants received a written vignette describing a homicide case, with either a female or a male perpetrator. The results suggested strong gender effects on legal insanity judgements. Forensic psychiatric clinicians and psychology students assessed the case information as more indicative of legal insanity if the perpetrator was a woman than a man. Judges assessed offenders of their own gender, as they were more likely to be declared legally insane than a perpetrator of the opposite gender. Implications of and possible ways to minimize such gender biases in for... Jung At Heart blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1806138 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:18:11 +0100 1806138 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1186504&cid=t_369889_165_f&fid=36770&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmetaot.com%2Fblogs%2Fventh-3 Conclusion: Gender-role blurring has increased stress for everybody concerned. Occupational therapists may be able to alleviate some of this stress by teaching people to detach from social pressure and act authentically. This blog entry is unashamedly journalistic. A thorough review of the relevant research is required to advance the occupational therapy profession’s understanding of the effects of gender politics on occupation. As a Band 5 occupational therapist who has been threatened with the lowest pay scale however, I feel it is fair to leave that to the more senior occupational therapists that are actually being paid for the responsibility. Occupational therapists with an interest in Tantra may like to network with this link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2352527880 Occupa... meta-ot blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1186504 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:31:57 +0100 1186504