Women, Gender, Sexuality 395SB - S-Sex, Gender and Health

This class is designed for students interested social science approaches to biomedical and allied health topics. Through readings, lectures, discussions, films and writing we will broaden our understandings of the body (the material body) and the social life of that body (identity and subjectivity). We will discuss potential answers to questions about the relationship between health and medicine and the construction of health, wellness, illness and disease. We will use the creative and scholarly resources we have at our disposal to think critically about the medical encounter and its impact on embodiment and subjectivity as it is brought to bear on sex/gender, sexuality, race and class.