Question

Many critics of medicalization claim that medicalizing women’s health issues is a form institutional sexism. As described in our text, medicalization is the process where previously normal aspects of life are redefined as deviant and needing medical attention to remedy. Discuss the medicalization of women’s health issues and address whether medicalizing issues like menstruation, pre-menstrual syndrome, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause amounts to institutional sexism.

Answer 1

Medicalization refers to the process of normal aspects of life redefined that need medical attention for a cure. Women medicalized for menstruation, pre-menstrual syndrome, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause. medicalization for childbirth and pregnancy many women considered that as a normal process they choose for the normal processes. social support important during that time than medical support to prevent women from postpartum depression.
Institutionalized sexism is a set of rules that discriminate against women and afford a better opportunity for men. During pregnancy women overcome with depression, psychosis it makes to have a quick decision to end the process soon. medicalization of the reproductive process of mental health disorder. the sociological point in the medicalization process associated with health risk. stereotype, stigma, and misunderstanding of menstruation and menopause affect women psychology. stereotype contributes to sexium, prejudice and agism related to women physical process. limitations of women's capacity at this time make self, fulfilling prophecies that cause women to have a psychological disorder, abortion, etc... Institutionalized sexism due to women instability of identity of mood, behavior for many women causes the medicalization of women health issues.