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His and Hers Healthcare? (Strategic) Essentialism and Women’s Health

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TitleHis and Hers Healthcare? (Strategic) Essentialism and Women’s Health
ContributorAnnelies Kleinherenbrink(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH09
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2024-05-16
Long abstractIn her contribution “His and Hers Healthcare? (Strategic) Essentialism and Women’s Health,” Annelies Kleinherenbrink shows how mainstream policies, research, and campaigns that are focused on women’s health have constructed and reified womanhood as a universal medical category, such that health disparities between women and men are assumed to be binary differences and to override, or at least precede, any other inequalities. In line with feminist theories that critique such appeals to universal womanhood, Kleinherenbrink argues that this strategy, while perhaps initially effective in creating a research agenda and gathering wide support for it, is ultimately likely to benefit only <i>some</i> (relatively privileged) women. More acknowledgement of intersectionality needs to be incorporated not as a disclaimer or future goal, but as a primary theoretical and methodological commitment.
Keywords
  • feminist theory
  • feminist philosophy
  • gender theory
  • race
  • racism
  • sexism and misogyny
  • oppresssion and resistance
  • the environment
  • climate change
  • neuropsychology
  • brain theories
Contributors

Annelies Kleinherenbrink

(author)
Radboud University Nijmegen
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4501-2879

Annelies Kleinherenbrink is Assistant Professor of Gender and Diversity in Artificial Intelligence at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her work engages with the interactions between science and society from a critical feminist perspective, with a specific focus on human classification and social inequality in the realms of neuroscience, psychology, biomedicine, and AI. She is currently working on an NWO-funded project titled “AI for Women’s Health? Troubling Categories of Sex and Gender in Medical Machine Learning.”