Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 293W - S- Beauty as Work

Spring
2021
01
3.00
Miliann Kang
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
UMass Amherst
84468
Fully Remote Class
mkang@umass.edu
How have bodies become both the site and the vehicle for new forms of labor, consumption, production and reproduction? What does the commercialization of the body and embodied exchanges reveal about interconnections between personal, local, national and global contexts? This course will examine enactments of body labor in locations and processes ranging from nail salons, beauty pageants, cosmetic surgery, surrogacy, medical tourism to frontline healthcare work within the pandemic. Drawing on interdisciplinary feminist, transnational and ethnic studies scholarship, it centers bodies and body labor as lenses through which to examine race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, labor, migration and globalization.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.