Politics of the Body
AMST 293
Fall 2013
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 294 |
| Course Cluster: Disability Studies |
This course explores the politics of embodiment: the operations of power on and in the body. We'll pay particular attention to processes of sexed, raced, gendered, and able-bodied normalization, drawing on the interdisciplinary fields of queer, disability, and transgender studies. Each of these fields has generated a framework for understanding and critiquing regimes of normalization: queer studies through a critique of heteronormativity, disability studies through a critique of able-bodied norms, and trans studies through a critique of gender normativity. Our course will take an intersectional approach, exploring connections and frictions between forms of bodily difference. We'll draw on theoretical, historical, ethnographic, and literary approaches to the categorization of bodies and subjects as normal or abnormal (and often pathological, diseased, or perverse). Our course material will range from turn-of-the-20th-century sexology to contemporary theorizations of biopolitics, trans materiality, and homonormativity. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Readings might include:
Judith Butler, BODIES THAT MATTER
Mel Chen, ANIMACIES: BIOPOLITICS, RACIAL MATTERING, AND QUEER AFFECT
Eli Clare, EXILE AND PRIDE: DISABILITY, QUEERNESS, AND LIBERATION
Roderick A. Ferguson, ABERRATIONS IN BLACK: TOWARD A QUEER OF COLOR CRITIQUE
Michel Foucault, HISTORY OF SEXUALITY, VOL. 1
Terry Galloway, MEAN LITTLE DEAF QUEER: A MEMOIR
Katrina Karkazis, FIXING SEX: INTERSEX, MEDICAL AUTHORITY, AND LIVED EXPERIENCE
Martin Manalansan, GLOBAL DIVAS: FILIPINO GAY MEN IN THE DIASPORA
Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow, SEX AND DISABILITY
Jasbir Puar, TERRORIST ASSEMBLAGES: HOMONATIONALISM IN QUEER TIMES
Gayle Salamon, ASSUMING A BODY: TRANSGENDER AND RHETORICS OF MATERIALITY
Siobhan Somerville, QUEERING THE COLOR LINE: RACE AND THE INVENTION OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICAN CULTURE
Dean Spade, NORMAL LIFE: ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLENCE, CRITICAL TRANS POLITICS AND THE LIMITS OF LAW
Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline Urla, DEVIANT BODIES: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DIFFERENCE IN SCIENCE AND POPULAR CULTURE
David Valentine, IMAGINING TRANSGENDER: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF A CATEGORY
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Examinations and Assignments:
class project, short response papers, and final paper/project |
| Instructor(s): Weiss,Margot Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: FISK414; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 30 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 10 | | |
| Seats Available: 13 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 8 | FR: 0 |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 1 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 1 |
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