Sections offered SPRING 2020:
#10505 (Lecture)
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LAURA FOSTER |
MW 2:30pm-3:20pm
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OP 105
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CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
This course explores how normative understandings of persons and their bodies have been constructed, contested, and reconfigured through notions of sex, gender, race, and sexuality. Part I examines how persons and their bodies have historically been constructed as fixed and binary through notions of sex, gender, race, and sexuality that cast them as either male/female, masculine/feminine, white/nonwhite, and heterosexual/nonheterosexual in unequal ways. Part II asks students to reflect on how persons live and experience their body in transgressive ways that make us think differently about how sex, gender, race, and sexuality are in fact multiple, changing, and valued. For example, topics related to transgender studies, fat studies, and disability studies will enable students to critically analyze how the persons and their bodies are plural, fluid, and valued. Part III encourages students to consider ways of reassembling our social world towards social justice for multiple expressions of sex, gender, sexuality, race, and the body. Moving through the course, students will gain a deeper understanding of the relationships between sex, gender, sexuality, race, and the body.