Gender, Health, and Social Theory

3 cr · Graduate

This course explores foundational texts in social theory to think about health from an interdisciplinary feminist perspective. Pointing to the intersections amongst race, class, gender, ability and sexuality, this course examines how current concepts of health and illness have come to make sense in and through gendered constructions. Appealing to feminist and postcolonial theories of science, this course requires students to question taken-for-granted biomedical understandings of the body.