Ep 7 Shades of Pink and Pink for a Cure

In this episode we cover:

- The Power by Naomi Alderman (book) and series on Amazon Prime

- It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told) Book by Dr Karen Tang

- The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism, Book by Jen Gunter

- Our Bodies Ourselves, Book by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective

 

Sources:

 

Cocktail: Shades of Pink https://empressgin.com/cocktail/shades-of-pink/ 

The Power by Naomi Alderman (book) and series on Amazon Prime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_(Alderman_novel) 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_(TV_series) 2023 Amazon Prime

https://screenrant.com/the-power-season-2-updates-everything-we-know/ 

• Violence against women - child abuse, sex trade/human trafficking, intimate partner violence 
  • https://www.thehotline.org/stakeholders/domestic-violence-statistics/ 
  • https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/statistics 
  • https://www.ijm.org/our-work/violence-women-children 
• Oppression - social, political, financial, physical, spiritual
  • https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/discrimination/womens-rights/ 
• Women’s health - “sterilization” of the power, understanding women’s health and organ development, clinical trials
  • https://publichealthreviews.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40985-017-0060-9 
  • https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/11/10/sterilization-women-and-girls-disabilities 
  • https://www.aamc.org/news/why-we-know-so-little-about-women-s-health 
• Women and rage
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/arts/television/tv-female-rage-beef.html 
• Women as sexual beings, lesbianism
• Women as allies - awakening The Power in each other
• Men as allies
• Reversal of social roles
• Intersex https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/16324-intersex 
• Movie only covers about half of the book; chaos and the corruption of power
• Author mentored by Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale)

 Health Literacy:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5175428/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10826516/

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