Anthropology 316RN - Race / Nation / Gender

Spring
2016
01
4.00
Jacquelyne Luce
F 01:15PM-04:05PM
Mount Holyoke College
95505
Shattuck Hall 318
jluce@mtholyoke.edu
95505,95504
This seminar explores the potentially novel entanglements of 'race', 'nation' and 'gender' through the increasing transnationalization of scientific and medical practices, the mobility of practitioners and consumers, and the mobilization of scientific and medical knowledge by individuals and communities, as well as governmental and civil society organizations. We will engage with the multiple tensions in feminist research on topics such as diversity, population and medical genomics, and reproductive and medical tourism as the multiple and shifting identities of experts and 'lay' individuals call attention to the power and problematics of scientific, medical and patient 'diasporas'.
Prereq: 8 credits in gender studies or anthropology.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.