In the News"Instructor Spotlight," The Lifelong Exchange, April 14, 2017Feminism and the Mastery of Women and Childbirth (2014) In Feminism and the Mastery of Women and Childbirth Dr. Nall shows that social conceptualizations of childbirth, as indicated in popular culture, medical practice and research, promote dehumanizing, dishonoring patriarchal definitions of femininity. The dominant vision of childbirth serves, he contends, to perpetuate the distrust of both the female body and the sphere of “nature.” Nall also argues that the homebirth movement provides an alternative understanding and practice that is often, but not always, more consonant with feminist and ecofeminist philosophy’s values, including support for gender equality, and the disavowal of dominator relations between culture and nature in favor of a partnership model. More info at woman-made
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One Hundred Ways to Change the Subject: Plutocratic Fallacies in the Service of Fast-Food Exploitation, Truth Out, September 1, 2014Fast-Food Workers Challenge Stereotypes, Globalize Question of Fairness, Truth Out, August 30, 2014Post by Dr. Jeffrey Nall. Post by Dr. Jeffrey Nall. |