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Part 1

For this assignment, students will each locate one professional organization website.  They will each locate one website on a topic related to gender and health.  Review the site and be prepared to summarize the key points made for other students during the live discussion meeting.  

To ensure that each student is identifying a different site, please send an email to the other students in the class and to the instructor with a link to the site.  Also, post the website URL here.  You do not need to post your notes about this site in the email but you should have a set of notes that you can refer to during the discussion

Grading criteria will include the following:

1) Relevance of website to topic

2) Website met requirement for professional organizational source

3) Student had prepared in advance for presentation of key points of article.

4) Student presents key points to classmates during discussion and answers any questions they might have.

Presentation should be no more than 5 minutes with about 5 minutes for possible questions.

Part 2

1.  Watch video:  Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?

Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?

Alice Dreger works with people at the edge of anatomy, such as conjoined twins and intersexed people. In her observation, it's often a fuzzy line between male and female, among other anatomical distinctions. Which brings up a huge question: Why do we let our anatomy determine our fate? (Filmed at TEDxNorthwesternU.) 18 minutes

http://www.ted.com/talks/alice_dreger_is_anatomy_destiny

Discussion Question for Notes:  Thoughts?

2.  Watch this video:    What teen pregnancy looks like in Latin America (Links to an external site.)

CHRISTIAN RODRÍGUEZ

What teen pregnancy looks like in Latin America

Christian Rodríguez is a photographer and filmmaker -- and the son of a teenage mother. For the past five years, he has documented teen pregnancy in Latin America, creating intimate and dignified portraits of mothers as young as 12 years old. In this moving, visual talk, he shares his work and explores how young motherhood traps girls in a cycle of poverty and exploitation. (15 minutes)

Discussion Question for Notes:  Some Americans who oppose abortion also oppose access to birth control information and medical services.  How does Rodriguez' video tie into that debate?

3.  Watch this video on the Biology of Gender

https://www.ted.com/talks/karissa_sanbonmatsu_the_biology_of_gender_from_dna_to_the_brain?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2019-01-10

Discussion Question for Notes:  What is the main message(s) you learned from this talk?

4.  Watch this video:   https://www.ted.com/talks/paula_johnson_his_and_hers_health_care (Links to an external site.)

Discussion Question for Notes:  How does the difference in health care impact women's lives?