ILLNESS, DISABILITY, AND THE GENDERED BODY

Credit Hours: 3 · Graduate

This course draws on critical disability studies and medical anthropology to explore how gender and sexuality matter in contexts of illness and disability across a range of institutional, social, and national contexts. We pay particular attention to the ways illness and disability expose, disturb, or retrench normative arrangements of gender. Cross-list: ANTH 554 . Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SWGS 353 . Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SWGS 554 if student has credit for SWGS 353 .