ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on module entitled Feminism, Health and Caring. It demonstrates how the mainstream curriculum within health programmes can be challenged — using modularity as the structure to enable the inclusion of 'stand alone' modules, such as this. The chapter also demonstrates ways in which feminist perspectives can be developed within health care courses by the use of distinct modules, enabling such perspectives to be channelled into modular programmes. It considers the institutional approach whereby health students are now able to gain access to feminist theory as part of their programme, discusses a module entitled Feminism, Health and Caring which gives students access to feminist theory and feminist concepts of women's health, reviews the literature concerning the teaching of women's health within a feminist context, and suggests that Women's Studies modules can be easily accessed by health students within traditional programmes for professional education.
