Introduction
When I read chapter seven of Margaret Anderson’s 2015 book Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender, I was struck by how passionate she was about many of the topics covered, especially women’s reproductive rights. The passion and indignation in her writing made me much more interested in the material. For this reason, I have decided to write my response paper on chapter seven, “Women, Health and Reproduction.”
Breast Cancer
Race
On page 205 of the chapter, Anderson talks about breast cancer. She says, although White women are more likely to develop it, the death rates from the disease are the same for both White and Black women (2015). This is a misleading statement. African American women are 41 percent …show more content…
I was disappointed that she did not dedicate a single sentence to how extreme the wage gap is between people with disabilities and people without them. People with disabilities on average only make 63 cents to every dollar non-disabled people make (Diament, 2015). I know Anderson does not have time or room to talk about everything, but as a person who has two brothers and several friends on the autism spectrum it infuriates me that people with disabilities are consistently overlooked in discussions about fair …show more content…
I slammed my book shut and had to take a few minutes to process what I had just read. I have been active in feminism for a few years, and to know that I have never heard of something this big honestly sickens me. This needs to be talked about in feminist circles. Women who have had this happen to them, or who are at the risk of this happening to them, need to be supported and fought for.
Sildenafil Citrate and The Nobel Prize
Although what Anderson wrote on page 218 about the scientists behind sildenafil citrate, also known by the brand name Viagra, winning a Nobel Prize was accurate, I feel she worded it in a misleading way (2015). The men, Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Dr. Ferid Murad, who discovered the science that allows sildenafil citrate to work, won the award because the discovery that nitric oxide gas can help to make blood vessels relax and widen is incredibly important medical information. The science behind that discovery can also be applied to helping cancer, heart disease, and other medical ailments (Associated Press, 1998). The creators of birth control certainly deserved an award, but to act as though male sexuality is the only reason the three scientists behind sildenafil citrate won is to do an injustice to those
When I read chapter seven of Margaret Anderson’s 2015 book Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender, I was struck by how passionate she was about many of the topics covered, especially women’s reproductive rights. The passion and indignation in her writing made me much more interested in the material. For this reason, I have decided to write my response paper on chapter seven, “Women, Health and Reproduction.”
Breast Cancer
Race
On page 205 of the chapter, Anderson talks about breast cancer. She says, although White women are more likely to develop it, the death rates from the disease are the same for both White and Black women (2015). This is a misleading statement. African American women are 41 percent …show more content…
I was disappointed that she did not dedicate a single sentence to how extreme the wage gap is between people with disabilities and people without them. People with disabilities on average only make 63 cents to every dollar non-disabled people make (Diament, 2015). I know Anderson does not have time or room to talk about everything, but as a person who has two brothers and several friends on the autism spectrum it infuriates me that people with disabilities are consistently overlooked in discussions about fair …show more content…
I slammed my book shut and had to take a few minutes to process what I had just read. I have been active in feminism for a few years, and to know that I have never heard of something this big honestly sickens me. This needs to be talked about in feminist circles. Women who have had this happen to them, or who are at the risk of this happening to them, need to be supported and fought for.
Sildenafil Citrate and The Nobel Prize
Although what Anderson wrote on page 218 about the scientists behind sildenafil citrate, also known by the brand name Viagra, winning a Nobel Prize was accurate, I feel she worded it in a misleading way (2015). The men, Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Dr. Ferid Murad, who discovered the science that allows sildenafil citrate to work, won the award because the discovery that nitric oxide gas can help to make blood vessels relax and widen is incredibly important medical information. The science behind that discovery can also be applied to helping cancer, heart disease, and other medical ailments (Associated Press, 1998). The creators of birth control certainly deserved an award, but to act as though male sexuality is the only reason the three scientists behind sildenafil citrate won is to do an injustice to those