Gender Body:Vic ArtVis Cltr

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

Athletes, aesthetes, wives, widows and worms, in this course we seek to understand how gender norms were constructed and challenged in nineteenth-century art and visual culture. Focusing on representations of different ‘types’ of bodies in art, science, and medicine, we will grapple with the contested nature of the body as it was being debated in discourses as diverse as religious doctrine and Darwinian evolution.