TRANSLATING LATIN AMERICAN/US LATINA FRAMEWORKS AND METHODS IN GENDER AND HEALTH EQUITY: LINKING WOMEN'S HEALTH EDUCATION AND PARTICIPATORY SOCIAL CHANGE

摘要

This article applies transdisciplinary approaches to critical health education for gender equity by analyzing textual and political strategies translating/ culturally adapting the U.S. feminist health text, Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), for Latin American/Caribbean and U.S. Latina women. The resulting text, Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas (NCNV), was revised at multiple levels to reflect different culturalsociopolitical assumptions connecting individual knowledge, community-based and transnational activist organizations, and strategic social change. Translation/cultural adaptation decisions were designed to ensure that gender-equitable health promotion education crossed cultural borders, conveying personal knowledge and motivating individual actions while also inspiring participation in partnerships for change. Trans-disciplinary approaches integrating critical ecosystemic frameworks and participatory methods can help design health promotion education mobilizing engaged, gender-equitable health citizenship supporting both personal and societal change.