Politics of the Body
AMST 293
Fall 2017 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 294 |
| Course Cluster: Disability Studies, Health Studies, Queer Studies |
This course explores the operations of power on and in the body, drawing on the interdisciplinary fields of queer, disability, and transgender studies. We will examine the ways bodies are marked as deviant, abnormal, and/or pathological, considering where processes of sexed, raced, gendered, and able-bodied normalization intersect and where they diverge. Case studies will range from turn-of-the-century sexology to the modern freak show, the politics of passing, the science of homosexuality, the pleasures of trans and queer embodiment, the contemporary biopolitics of AIDS, eugenics, and U.S. citizenship. Readings include theoretical, historical, and ethnographic approaches to power, difference, and the body. We will also read several memoirs to help us ground the body politics of life lived in the intersections of queer, trans, and disability. |
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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) |
Major Readings:
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 |
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