BODIES AND POWER

Undergraduate

This course examines how bodies are assumed to reflect identity categories such as gender, race, sexuality, disability, and national identity. It explores bodies as sites for the definition and regulation of those categories, as well as for resistance to them. Through diverse examples such as exercise and diet culture, hair, public places, sex work, and others, this course considers how and why bodies matter, and challenges the everyday assumptions made about bodies and power relations of all kinds. PREREQUISITE: None Three hours a week