Sexuality Wmn's & Gndr Studies 238 - Culture, Race, Health

Fall
2018
01
4.00
Haile Cole
MW 02:30PM-03:50PM
Amherst College
SWAG-238-01-1819F
WEBS 220
hcole@amherst.edu
ANTH-238-01,SWAG-238-01

(Offered as ANTH 238 and SWAG 238) This course concerns the reproductive health experiences, including those focused on sexuality, birth, and motherhood, of women in the United States. It explores the relationship between these experiences and the fact of having a black female body (as was first constructed under slavery). It also explores the complex relationship between women’s reproductive experiences and their contemporary racial and socioeconomic locations in American society. The aim is to garner a thorough and sophisticated understanding of why “reproductive justice” is elusive in the contemporary United States and to consider what might be done about it.  

Limited to 35 students. Fall semester. Visiting Professor H. Cole.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.