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Hello world! My name is Kaitlyn O'Hagan. This blog was for a Fall 2012 Thomas Hunter Honors course I took called "Feminism, New Media and Health" at CUNY Hunter College.
Read my introduction for this website here!
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morality Archive
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The Education of Kaitlyn O’Hagan
Posted on December 2, 2012 | 1 CommentAfter watching The Education of Shelby Knox in class two weeks ago, I thought I would follow in some of my classmates footsteps and write about my own experiences of sexual health education–especially as it served to inspire the topic for my final paper. My first memory of official sexual education is […] -
Scrap SCRAMx
Posted on November 1, 2012 | No CommentsWhen Rebecca Tiger came to my class to give a guest lecture, one of the most shocking things I learned about was SCRAMx, an alcohol monitoring device that “alcohol offenders” are FORCED to wear by our legal system. This seemed to me a blatant violation of privacy, and a fundamental […] -
Fat Monster
Posted on October 29, 2012 | 4 Comments“The long-term ineffectiveness of diets, particularly among those experiencing significant levels of obesity, is widely recognized, and many have argued that unsuccessful and repeated dieting is a source of psychological and physical harm.” (Throsby, see below for link). Yet Americans, especially women, are spending $30 billion annually on weight loss, and […] -
Abortion as Liberation?
Posted on September 6, 2012 | 2 CommentsWhile reading the first three chapters of Sandra Morgan’s book Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States, I was struck by a statemnent about the Jane Collective: “That’s how they thought abortions ought to be done: by women, for women, as acts of liberation and empowerment. [Emphasis […]