Gender, Identity, and Culture: Sexing The Body

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: Second-year standing; or 3 credits from FGST 1001 or WGST 1001; or permission of the Program Director This course examines human bodies in historical and contemporary socio-political contexts, investigating gender and embodiment both as an expression of individual identity and a production of complex social processes. Drawing upon scholarship on body politics in the interdisciplinary fields of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, it explores how bodies are simultaneously gendered, raced, classed, sexualized, and politicized through interpersonal, social, and institutional processes, including culture, science, medicine, and globalization. (Format: Lecture/Tutorial 3 Hours) (Exclusion: WGST 2101)