Women: A Biosocial Perspective

Catalog description

This course is oriented to all graduate students at the Medical Sciences Campus. It provides an overview of the interrelationship between social and health aspects of contemporary woman, and how it affects their present situation. Emphasis is placed on wom en in Puerto Rico. It includes the following topics: The Social Construction of Sexual Identity, Theories of Women’s Status and Roles, Gender as a Social Stratifier, Existing Differences in Female Subordination, Female Sexuality, Interrelationship between Social and Health Aspects by Age, Groups, and Women and Health Delivery System.