Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
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DOI：
10.1057/9781137008633_2
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发表时间：
2014
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M. L. Palley;H. Palley
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作者：
M. L. Palley;H. Palley
妇女保健问题根源于性别和性行为的历史和文化定义。从历史上看，妇女的社会结构强调妇女的性、生殖和育儿，这些被视为妇女的决定性特征。世纪后期的社会达尔文主义者进一步声称，非白人比白人低一等，女性比男性低一等。然而，到了世纪末和进入21世纪世纪，妇女特别容易受到疾病的影响成为人们关注的问题。公共政策议程日益认识到老年人慢性病是妇女健康议程的一部分，老年人中女性比例过高。妇女团体越来越多地将获得堕胎和避孕等生殖健康问题界定为妇女保健议程的核心。反对提供堕胎服务的人成功地将这一问题政治化，并限制了获得堕胎服务的机会。
The issue of women’s health care has roots in the historical and cultural definitions of gender and sexuality. Historically, the social construction of women emphasized women’s sexuality, reproduction and child care and these were seen as their defining characteristics. The Social Darwinists of the late nineteenth century further claimed that non-whites were inferior to whites and women were inferior relative to men. Nevertheless by the late twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, the specific vulnerabilities of women to disease became concerns. The public policy agenda increasingly recognized chronic diseases of the elderly, a group that is disproportionately female, as part of the women’s health agenda. Women’s groups increasingly define reproductive health issues such as the availability of access to abortion and contraception as central to the women’s health care agenda. Opponents of the provision of abortion services have been successful in politicizing this issue and in limiting access and availability.