Question 1

This chapter's opening presents convincing data that narrate racial disparities in health care. Should the trends-fertility, abortion, diseases, and addiction-based upon these data continue? Is the "Whiteness" of the US likely to remain for at least another generation?

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Question 2

Is mental health strongly or weakly correlated to financial security, stability, and gender expression?

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Question 3

Vō objectively presents evidence of the cultural capital embedded in circle contact lenses. Write a short response paper that takes one side of the argument for circle contact lenses' effect on the global beauty industry.

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Question 4

Kristjansson in quoting Sedgwick writes that "the 'fat woman in a clothing store … lights up a pinball machine of economic, gender, and racial meanings.'" Identify some of the ways in which the fat woman's purchasing power can positively transform the economy.

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Question 5

Ross argues that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) guarantees human rights to those who are already born, not the unborn, and those who make claims otherwise are manipulating the framework for their own political advantage. Do you agree/disagree with Ross's understanding that "[h]uman rights are our birthright as human beings" and that humanness begins only at birth? Provide evidence from Ross's reading.

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Question 6

Kafer's invitation to a debate on the place that people with a disability or different hold in society already assumes what?

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Question 7

hooks's reading leans toward the argument that conditions create consciousness. Are you persuaded by the evidence she presents? If not, what additional evidence is necessary?

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Quiz 5: Bodies, Beauty, Health, and Wellness