Women's Health Care

This research examines gender issues relative to women's health care. The research will examine why, even in the 21st century, health care is not administered on a gender-equal basis. It will be shown that, despite attempts by the health-care infrastructure of the Anglo-American culture to develop certain health-related protocols geared for the special health-care needs of women, the weight of evidence is on the side of the view that women as a group do not receive the level of medical care that is available to their male counterparts. The situation is especially significant if the women in question are known to be lesbians. Central to this research will be development of the argument that the reasons for the palpable "engendered" inequity embedded into the health-care system have to do with protocols and attitudes that emerged in the health-care system that dominated the Victorian era. It will be seen that cultural attitudes toward homosexuality may have changed from the 19th through the 20th century but that, despite the emergence of apparently progressive attitudes toward women with a homosexual orientation, the hard truth is that because of their sexual identity lesbians are placed in an inferior position where the question is one of obtaining the best possible health care. Accordingly, this research will discuss how and why the particular relationship that women identified as homosexuals have had with prevailing health-care protocols and service providers from the Victor

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enital inversion" (242) as the typical marker of the "invert"; rather, it is to be considered an anomaly. Further, the anomaly may owe something to the social restrictions placed on women that place them in each other's company and that restrict them from developing meaningful relationships with men. However, for women who are inverted from whatever source, two issues arise. First, the invert is characterized by "a certain degree of masculinity" (244). Second, the invert, whether congenital or socialized toward inversion, is linked to "neurotic heredity . . . often associated with neurasthenia, hysteria and occasionally epilepsy and other more pronounced forms of nervous disintegration" (245). The invert, in other words, is sick, suffering from a medical condition. While Ellis is suspicious of outright "cures" of female inverts, he take the view that the best treatment for lesbianism is a firm purpose of amendment and avoiding sexual indulgence, since the effect on the target of indulgence may be unwholesome. The physician's intervention, for Ellis, should take the form of treating the accompanying hysteria/neurosis that he knows to be embedded in the inversion behavior. What is most striking about such prescriptions is the certi

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