His and hers medicine? (Strategic) essentialism and women's health
Publication year
2024Author(s)
Publisher
Nijmegen : Radboud University Press
ISBN
9789493296398
In
Dufourcq, A.; Halsema, A.; Smiet, K. (ed.), Purple brains: Feminisms at the limits of philosophy, pp. 119-131Publication type
Part of book or chapter of book
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Editor(s)
Dufourcq, A.
Halsema, A.
Smiet, K.
Vintges, K.
Organization
SW OZ RSCR GD
Languages used
English (eng)
Book title
Dufourcq, A.; Halsema, A.; Smiet, K. (ed.), Purple brains: Feminisms at the limits of philosophy
Page start
p. 119
Page end
p. 131
Subject
gender and diversityAbstract
In her contribution "His and Hers Healthcare? (Strategic) Essentialism and Women's Health," Annelies Kleinherenbrink shows how mainstream policies, research, and campaigns that are focused on women's health have constructed and reified womanhood as a universal medical category, such that health disparities between women and men are assumed to be binary differences and to override, or at least precede, any other inequalities. In line with feminist theories that critique such appeals to universal womanhood, Kleinherenbrink argues that this strategy, while perhaps initially effective in creating a research agenda and gathering wide support for it, is ultimately likely to benefit only some (relatively privileged) women. More acknowledgement of intersectionality needs to be incorporated not as a disclaimer or future goal, but as a primary theoretical and methodological commitment.
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