Faculty First Year Seminars 191WG3 - Body Politics

This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the body through the lens of women?s, gender, and sexuality studies, critical race theory, social justice feminism, dis/ability studies, and queer theory. We will explore the operations of power on and in the body, asking: What are some of the ways in which bodies are marked as ?deviant? and/or ?pathological?? Which bodies get to count as ?normal? and how does the normalization of sex, race, and gender help to shape our lived experience and our negotiations of power, pleasure, and difference? The course will introduce a range of topics, including: Racial politics and reproductive justice; Gender-based violence, rape culture, and feminist activism; Dis/ability, disease, and embodiment; Media politics, visual culture, and commodity capitalism; trans* politics and queer theory.

Freshmen Only