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Social Change

Social Change. Types of Solutions Medicine Education Family Violence Recognizing Privilege. Types of Solutions. Individual vs. institutional examples Pace and ease of social change Social movements and counter-movements

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Social Change

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  1. Social Change Types of Solutions Medicine Education Family Violence Recognizing Privilege

  2. Types of Solutions • Individual vs. institutional • examples • Pace and ease of social change • Social movements and counter-movements • Women’s movement-->conservative men’s movement and pro-life movement

  3. Medicine • National health insurance • www.pnhp.org (Dr. Paul Sorum) • Free mammograms • www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2 • New York State Black Gay Network • www.nysbgn.org

  4. Medicine • Self-help groups and clinics • Birthing centers • Black Women’s Health Imperative • www.blackwomenshealth.org • Latina Women’s Health Project, Native American Community Women’s Health Education Resource Center • Media images • www.about-face.org

  5. Education • Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments • Title IX (Mary Ellen Burt)

  6. Family • Divorce & Custody • www.dadsrights.org (men’s rights organization)

  7. Violence • Crisis lines • Escort services • Training for medical personnel, police & judges • Battered women’s shelters • Take Back the Night marches(www.takebackthenight.org) • Safe Space at Union(24 Hour Pager 349-6669)

  8. Violence • Educate male batterers (Jackson Katz) • Mentors in Violence Prevention (athletics) • Domestic and sexual violence prevention program in US Marine Corps • Films such as Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity • New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy • www.nyagra.com

  9. Recognizing Privilege • National Organization of Men Against Sexism • www.nomas.org

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