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Monday, January 16, 2012
Introductory Letter :)
Hi! My name is Kira Peterman, and I am a sophomore student at UCF majoring in Nursing with minors in Women's Studies and Health Services Administration. I want to be a midwife “when I grow up,” and plan to go to graduate school to get a Certified Nurse Midwife degree after graduation. I enjoy rock climbing, hiking, and most other outdoor activities. I enjoy cooking (mostly vegetarian), and I also love to read, though sadly most of my reading time now is devoted to reading for classes rather than for entertainment.
My desired career path is one reason I am interested in the global women’s movement. In the United States and internationally, adequate healthcare can be very hard to come by. This means that pregnant women and newborn infants may not be well cared for and therefore could suffer in the future due to not having the best possible start in life. I want to work to make sure every baby is cared for while in the womb and every woman has a safe childbirth experience through both being employed directly in the healthcare field and working to change things on a more macro level. With this in mind, I am most interested in learning about women’s health globally, and what is being done to increase access to healthcare, primarily prenatal and childbirth services.
In my opinion, the most difficult thing about learning how women organize worldwide is the fact that not all women or women’s groups work in the same way. Learning about how women organize worldwide is an extremely broad topic, and is very similar to learning how all of the human race organizes worldwide, and therefore a monumental task due to the sheer vastness of organizations and groups. How people organized, I would think, is based more upon the culture they came from, the education they received, and the rest of their background more than upon the gender they identify with.
From this class, however difficult the task may seem, I do want to gain a better understanding of how women’s groups organize internationally. Global and transnational feminism, is, quite simply, something I want to know more about. Change does not just happen by itself, and if I want something to be different from the way it is now I have to do something about it rather than just waiting for something to happen. I hope this course will help me see what needs to be done to alter society. With this in mind, I also want to gain firsthand experience of what it means to work towards change on a global or transnational level through the service learning aspect of the course.
I have read, understand, and agree to the terms of the course syllabus and the blogging protocols.
Word Count: 463
My desired career path is one reason I am interested in the global women’s movement. In the United States and internationally, adequate healthcare can be very hard to come by. This means that pregnant women and newborn infants may not be well cared for and therefore could suffer in the future due to not having the best possible start in life. I want to work to make sure every baby is cared for while in the womb and every woman has a safe childbirth experience through both being employed directly in the healthcare field and working to change things on a more macro level. With this in mind, I am most interested in learning about women’s health globally, and what is being done to increase access to healthcare, primarily prenatal and childbirth services.
In my opinion, the most difficult thing about learning how women organize worldwide is the fact that not all women or women’s groups work in the same way. Learning about how women organize worldwide is an extremely broad topic, and is very similar to learning how all of the human race organizes worldwide, and therefore a monumental task due to the sheer vastness of organizations and groups. How people organized, I would think, is based more upon the culture they came from, the education they received, and the rest of their background more than upon the gender they identify with.
From this class, however difficult the task may seem, I do want to gain a better understanding of how women’s groups organize internationally. Global and transnational feminism, is, quite simply, something I want to know more about. Change does not just happen by itself, and if I want something to be different from the way it is now I have to do something about it rather than just waiting for something to happen. I hope this course will help me see what needs to be done to alter society. With this in mind, I also want to gain firsthand experience of what it means to work towards change on a global or transnational level through the service learning aspect of the course.
I have read, understand, and agree to the terms of the course syllabus and the blogging protocols.
Word Count: 463
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