Informações sobre o curso: This course focuses on women’s health and human rights issues from infancy through old age, including information about positive interventions relating to those issues. Learners are encouraged to interact with each other through interactive discussions. It is important to us that this course be available to all learners. We encourage you to apply for Coursera's financial aid (see link to left) if the cost of the course certificate is difficult for you to afford. Please note that you may view all materials in this course, and participate in it, without purchasing a certificate. The course was co-created by Consulting Professor Anne Firth Murray and Kevin Hsu. Anne Firth Murray is the Content Director of the course; Kevin Hsu is the Design Director of the course.
Para quem é direcionado este curso: This course is directed toward undergraduate university students, but high school students and anyone else interested in the health and human rights of women will find it of interest.
Desenvolvido por: Stanford University
Ministrado por: Anne Firth Murray
| Nível | Beginner |
| Compromisso | Depending on your pace, this course can be completed in 8-11 weeks. |
| Idioma | English |
| Como ser aprovado | Seja aprovado em todas as tarefas para concluir o curso. |
| Classificação do usuário |
Programa
SEMANA 1
Introduction
1 video, 9 readings
- Leyendo: Welcome!
- Leyendo: Who we are
- Leyendo: Our Textbook
- Leyendo: Assignments
- Leyendo: Complete a brief pre-course survey
- Leyendo: What resources are available to you?
- Leyendo: Visit internationalwomenshealth.org
- Leyendo: Sharing your work
- Leyendo: Create a local group
Nota atribuída: Complete the survey
Women's Rights = Human Rights
Learning the basics of women's rights and human rights. Why do we use the lens of human rights to examine women's issues?
6 videos, 8 readings
- Leyendo: About this Module
- Leyendo: Women's Health, Poverty and Rights [Textbook]
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: What are my initial thoughts on these topics?
- Leyendo: About Akila Radhakrishnan
- Vídeo: Akila Radhakrishnan on Women & Human Rights
- Leyendo: About Helen Stacy
- Vídeo: Helen Stacy on Women's Health, Human Rights, and International Law
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: CEDAW in your Country
- Leyendo: (optional) Additional Resources
- Leyendo: WHO: Women and Health - Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda
- Leyendo: [Optional] We Women Worry a Lot about our Husbands (Ghana)
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Reflect and Respond
- Vídeo: Son Preference & Demography
- Leyendo: A Deadly Preference
- Vídeo: Son Preference Conclusion
- Vídeo: Week 1 Final Remarks
Nota atribuída: Check Your Learning: Women's Rights = Human Rights
Nota atribuída: Check Your Learning: A Deadly Preference
Nota atribuída: Thought Question on Women's Rights and Human Rights
SEMANA 2
Education
5 videos, 10 readings
- Leyendo: About this Module
- Leyendo: Chapter 3. Childhood: the Hope of Education and the Persistence of Discrimination
- Leyendo: (optional) Additional Resources
- Leyendo: New Lessons: the Power of Educating Adolescent Girls
- Leyendo: (optional) Additional Resources on Girls' Education
- Leyendo: What Works in Girls’ Education
- Leyendo: About Lynn Murphy
- Vídeo: Lynn Murphy on "Learning vs. Schooling"
- Leyendo: About Wu Qing
- Vídeo: Professor Wu Qing from China
- Leyendo: About Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg
- Vídeo: Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg from Kenya
- Vídeo: Week 2 Final Remarks
- Leyendo: (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
Nota atribuída: Check Your Learning: Education
Nota atribuída: Thought Question: Education
SEMANA 3
Childhood & Adolescence: Female Genital Mutilation
4 videos, 10 readings, 1 practice quiz
- Leyendo: Into a New World: Young Women's Sexual and Reproductive Lives
- Leyendo: About this Module
- Leyendo: A Violent Practice: Female Genital Mutilation [Textbook]
- Leyendo: World Health Organization
- Leyendo: UNICEF
- Vídeo: UNICEF: Speaking out on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
- Leyendo: (optional) UNICEF Data
- Leyendo: Female Genital Mutilation: Guide to Laws and Policies
- Leyendo: Introduction to FGM in Sierra Leone
- Vídeo: Isha Daramy on FGM in Sierra Leone
- Cuestionario de práctica: Check-in on FGM
- Vídeo: UNICEF: FGM in Côte d'Ivoire
- Leyendo: [Optional] Cultural Perspective on FGM
- Leyendo: (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
Nota atribuída: Check Your Learning: Female Genital Mutilation
Nota atribuída: Thought Question on Female Genital Mutilation
SEMANA 4
Childhood & Adolescence: HIV/AIDS
8 videos, 11 readings, 1 practice quiz
- Leyendo: About this Module
- Leyendo: Adolescence, Change & Vulnerability [Textbook]
- Leyendo: Women, Poverty, and AIDS
- Leyendo: Women Are Not Just Transmitters
- Cuestionario de práctica: Check Your Learning: (Practice Quiz) HIV/AIDS
- Leyendo: About Dr. Gene Richardson (Stanford)
- Vídeo: Dr. Gene Richardson on Gender & HIV/AIDS
- Vídeo: Why South Africa?
- Leyendo: (optional) Additional Resources
- Vídeo: What is 'structural violence'?
- Vídeo: Changing Paradigms
- Leyendo: About TeachAIDS
- Vídeo: About TeachAIDS
- Vídeo: TeachAIDS India
- Leyendo: About G.R.A.C.E
- Vídeo: Orphans in Africa
- Leyendo: (optional) Additional Resources
- Leyendo: About this Quiz
- Leyendo: (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
Nota atribuída: HIV/AIDS
Nota atribuída: Thought Question: Structural Violence, HIV/AIDS
SEMANA 5
Reproductive Health
6 videos, 16 readings
- Leyendo: About this Module
- Leyendo: Why Child Marriage Persists
- Leyendo: Adolescent Pregnancy and Its Outcomes Across Countries
- Leyendo: About Dr. Caitlin Gerdts (UCSF)
- Vídeo: Dr. Caitilin Gerdts on Reproductive Health
- Leyendo: The Maternity Death Road: Reproductive and Sexual Health [Textbook]
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Responsibility for Pregnancy
- Leyendo: Spiraling Discourses of Reproductive and Sexual Rights
- Leyendo: Activism for Sexual and Reproductive Rights
- Leyendo: Advancing women's reproductive and sexual health rights: Using the International Human Rights system
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Reflect & Respond
- Vídeo: Unwanted Pregnancy, Contraception, and Abortion
- Leyendo: (optional) Additional Resources
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Reflect & Respond
- Leyendo: About Ipas
- Vídeo: Safe abortion in Nepal - a success story
- Leyendo: Outcomes in Nepal
- Leyendo: READINGS ON CERVICAL CANCER & HPV
- Leyendo: Lesbians, Health and Human Rights
- Leyendo: The Maternity Death Road
- Vídeo: Why Did Mrs. X Die?, Retold
- Leyendo: (optional) "Birth of a Surgeon" documentary film (Mozambique)
- Vídeo: Final Remarks on Sexual Health
- Leyendo: (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
Nota atribuída: Check Your Learning: Reproductive Health
Nota atribuída: Thought Question: Reproductive Health
Engage Your Community - Assignment #1
One of two special assignments that will take you out to interact with members of your community
2 readings
- Leyendo: Engage Your Community - Assignment #1
- Leyendo: (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
Nota atribuída: Engage Your Community #1
SEMANA 6
Violence Against Women in the Home and Community
3 videos, 16 readings
- Leyendo: About this Module
- Leyendo: "Violence against Women: Abuse or Terrorism?" [Textbook]
- Leyendo: WHO: Intimate partner and sexual violence against women
- Leyendo: (optional) Additional Resources
- Leyendo: About Jacqueline Pitanguy (Brazil)
- Vídeo: Jacqueline Pitanguy on Violence Against Women
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Reflect & Respond
- Leyendo: WHO: Going in Depth
- Leyendo: (Optional) Reflections on Violence, Subordination & Sexual Control (India)
- Leyendo: About the Film
- Vídeo: From Fear to Freedom
- Leyendo: (Optional) Survey
- Leyendo: About the Women's Learning Partnership
- Leyendo: Impacts on Empowerment (Mexico)
- Leyendo: An Obstacle to Development (Global)
- Leyendo: WHO: Primary prevention strategies
- Leyendo: Ending Violence Against Women
- Leyendo: Conclusion
- Leyendo: (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
Nota atribuída: Check Your Learning: Violence Against Women
Nota atribuída: Thought Question: Violence Against Women in the Home & Community
SEMANA 7
Women in War and Refugee Settings
6 videos, 15 readings, 1 practice quiz
- Leyendo: About this Module
- Leyendo: Women Caught in Conflict and Refugee Situations [Textbook]
- Leyendo: Defining "What is a refugee?"
- Leyendo: Female refugees
- Leyendo: (optional) Additional Resources on "Rape as a Weapon of War"
- Leyendo: About Tiela Chalmers
- Vídeo: LGBTI Refugees
- Vídeo: LGBIT Refugees (bonus)
- Leyendo: War and the Health of Women
- Leyendo: Forced Evictions in Situations of Armed Conflict (Middle East)
- Leyendo: Women, Violence and War (Balkans)
- Cuestionario de práctica: Optional Reading Quiz
- Leyendo: About UN Special Representative Zainab Bangura
- Vídeo: Zainab Bangura
- Leyendo: (optional) Additional Resources
- Leyendo: About Marjan Sax
- Vídeo: Marjan Sax on Refugees in Europe
- Leyendo: About the Series "Women, War, and Peace" (2011)
- Leyendo: (optional) Film: "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Reflect & Respond
- Vídeo: Final Remarks on Women in War and Refugee Settings
- Leyendo: (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
Nota atribuída: Check Your Learning: Women in War and Refugee Settings
Nota atribuída: Thought Question: Women in War & Refugee Settings
SEMANA 8
Women's Quest to Escape Poverty: Work & Economic Empowerment
4 videos, 10 readings
- Leyendo: About this Module
- Leyendo: Laboring in a Globalized World
- Leyendo: UN WOMEN: Facts & Figures on Economic Empowerment
- Leyendo: (optional) Additional Resources
- Leyendo: About Violeta Krasnic
- Vídeo: Violeta Krasnic on Women and Work
- Leyendo: The Global Gender Gap
- Vídeo: The Global Gender Gap
- Vídeo: Violeta's Comments on the Video
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Reflect & Respond
- Leyendo: UN WOMEN: Decent Work and Women's Economic Empowerment
- Leyendo: UNDP: "Valuing Women's Work"
- Leyendo: UN Special Rapporteur: Unpaid Care Work and Women's Human Rights
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Policy Frameworks for Gender Equality
- Leyendo: (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
Nota atribuída: Check Your Learning: Women's Work and Economic Empowerment
Nota atribuída: Thought Question: Women's Quest to Escape Poverty - Work & Economic Empowerment
SEMANA 9
Women's Quest to Escape Poverty: Sex Work & Sex Trafficking
3 videos, 7 readings
- Leyendo: About this Module
- Leyendo: Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
- Leyendo: About Katherine Jolluck
- Vídeo: Katherine Jolluck on Human Trafficking
- Leyendo: Trading women into sex and slavery
- Leyendo: International Trafficking in Women in the United States
- Leyendo: Women in the Sex Trade in Calcutta (India)
- Vídeo: Voluntary & Involuntary Sex Work
- Leyendo: (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
Nota atribuída: Trading women into sex and slavery
Nota atribuída: International Trafficking in Women in the United States
Nota atribuída: Women in the Sex Trade in Calcutta (India)
Nota atribuída: Check Your Learning: Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
Nota atribuída: Thought Question: Women's Quest to Escape Poverty - Sex Work & Sex Trafficking
SEMANA 10
Women, Aging, and End of Life
3 videos, 10 readings
- Leyendo: About this Module
- Leyendo: Aging in a Man's World [Textbook]
- Leyendo: UN WOMEN: Between Gender & Aging
- Leyendo: About Dr. Carol Hutner Winograd (Stanford)
- Vídeo: Dr. Carol Hutner Winograd on Aging and Demographic Change
- Leyendo: (optional) Additional Resources
- Leyendo: Aging in a Gendered World & Special Problems in Developing Countries
- Leyendo: Who Cares for the Caregivers?
- Leyendo: Dying and Death
- Leyendo: Grandmother Power
- Vídeo: Final Remarks
- Leyendo: (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
Nota atribuída: Aging in a Gendered World & Special Problems in Developing Countries
Nota atribuída: Who cares for the caregivers?
Nota atribuída: Check Your Learning: Women, Aging and End of Life
Nota atribuída: Thought Question: Women, Aging and End of Life
Engage Your Community - Assignment #2
Second of two special assignments where you engage with members of your community
2 readings
- Leyendo: Engage Your Community - Assignment #2
- Leyendo: (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
Nota atribuída: Engage Your Community - Assignment #2
Choosing Priorities, Making a Difference
5 videos, 11 readings
- Leyendo: About this Module
- Leyendo: About Dr. Iman Bibars (Egypt)
- Vídeo: Dr. Iman Bibars (Egypt)
- Leyendo: Turning the World Right-side Up [Textbook]
- Leyendo: About Ana María Enríquez (Colombia)
- Vídeo: Ana María Enríquez (Colombia)
- Leyendo: How to Proceed from Concept to Action
- Leyendo: About Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro (Kenya)
- Vídeo: Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro (Kenya)
- Leyendo: Women's Political Action (India)
- Leyendo: About Anne Firth Murray
- Vídeo: Anne Firth Murray (New Zealand)
- Leyendo: (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Leyendo: Post-Course Survey
- Leyendo: Our alumni community: internationalwomenshealth.org
Nota atribuída: Check Your Learning: Choosing Priorities, Making a Difference
Nota atribuída: Thought Question: Choosing Priorities, Making a Difference
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