Remaking Bodies, Rethinking Social Movements
FGSS 310
Spring 2015
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01
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| Course Cluster: Disability Studies, Queer Studies |
This course examines bodily modifications/transitions/transformations and how these processes of remaking bodies profoundly impact on social movements of the last decades, be they feminist, antiracist, gay, lesbian, bisexual and queer, trans, intersex, disability, and fat movements, to name some. The bodily transformations covered in this course are very diverse, from more normalized one, such as tattoos, piercings and cosmetic surgeries, to more uncommon and/or "extreme" one, like gastric bypass surgeries, sex reassignment surgeries, ethnic surgeries, voluntary acquisition of a disability (blindness, paraplegia, amputation) and of HIV (called "bug chasing"). This course provides an overview of the key concepts, theories, and debates in a variety of fields of studies that look at these bodily transformations and how they sometimes cause rifts, fraught discussions and divisions amongst social movements and how they sometimes help to create solidarities and alliances between marginalized groups. It also explores these bodily transformations through intersectional analyses that show how they are intertwined with other components such as sex, gender identity, sexuality, class, race, (dis)ability, language, and so on. Topics will include identity and bodily transformations, the normative body, the social and cultural representations of non-normative bodies and modified bodies, the medicalization and pathologization of different bodies, and power relations between social movements. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS FGSS |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Various articles;
Selections from authors, such as Victoria Taylor-Pitts, Tim Dean, Michael Gheen, Armando Favazza, Jay Prosser, and Julia Serano
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly participation and discussion of the texts, midterm take-home exam, final paper |
| Instructor(s): Baril,Alexandre Times: ..T.R.. 10:30AM-11:50AM; Location: ALLB304; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: -1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 1 | SO: 3 | FR: 0 |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 8 | 1st Ranked: 2 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 3 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 1 |
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