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Spring 2025  |  GWSS 3215 Section 001: Bodies That Matter: Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies (54707)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025
Mon, Wed 04:45PM - 06:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The COVID-19 pandemic has made questions of disability and ableism central and visible for all of us as never before. Dis/ability is not a physical or mental defect but a form of social meaning mapped to certain bodies in larger systems of power and privilege. Feminist approaches explore dis/ability as a vector of oppression intersecting and constituted through race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship. The course examines ideologies of ableism and the material realities of such oppression, and works toward imagining and constructing a more just and equitable society. As health care is differentially distributed or limited for people who are sickened by COVID-19, we see that systems of social and economic power determine the life chances of those who claim, or are claimed by disability. Meanwhile, people with disabilities have developed many daily life strategies that can be models for everyone coping with the pandemic.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54707/1253

Spring 2024  |  GWSS 3215 Section 001: Bodies That Matter: Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies (65393)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024
Mon, Wed 04:45PM - 06:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 115
Enrollment Status:
Open (27 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The COVID-19 pandemic has made questions of disability and ableism central and visible for all of us as never before. Dis/ability is not a physical or mental defect but a form of social meaning mapped to certain bodies in larger systems of power and privilege. Feminist approaches explore dis/ability as a vector of oppression intersecting and constituted through race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship. The course examines ideologies of ableism and the material realities of such oppression, and works toward imagining and constructing a more just and equitable society. As health care is differentially distributed or limited for people who are sickened by COVID-19, we see that systems of social and economic power determine the life chances of those who claim, or are claimed by disability. Meanwhile, people with disabilities have developed many daily life strategies that can be models for everyone coping with the pandemic.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65393/1243

Spring 2022  |  GWSS 3215 Section 001: Bodies That Matter: Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies (65776)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022
Tue, Thu 05:00PM - 06:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 115
Enrollment Status:
Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The COVID-19 pandemic has made questions of disability and ableism central and visible for all of us as never before. Dis/ability is not a physical or mental defect but a form of social meaning mapped to certain bodies in larger systems of power and privilege. Feminist approaches explore dis/ability as a vector of oppression intersecting and constituted through race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship. The course examines ideologies of ableism and the material realities of such oppression, and works toward imagining and constructing a more just and equitable society. As health care is differentially distributed or limited for people who are sickened by COVID-19, we see that systems of social and economic power determine the life chances of those who claim, or are claimed by disability. Meanwhile, people with disabilities have developed many daily life strategies that can be models for everyone coping with the pandemic.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65776/1223

Spring 2021  |  GWSS 3215 Section 001: Bodies That Matter: Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies (66435)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Tue, Thu 05:00PM - 06:15PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (31 of 35 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The COVID-19 pandemic has made questions of disability and ableism central and visible for all of us as never before. Dis/ability is not a physical or mental defect but a form of social meaning mapped to certain bodies in larger systems of power and privilege. Feminist approaches explore dis/ability as a vector of oppression intersecting and constituted through race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship. The course examines ideologies of ableism and the material realities of such oppression, and works toward imagining and constructing a more just and equitable society. As health care is differentially distributed or limited for people who are sickened by COVID-19, we see that systems of social and economic power determine the life chances of those who claim, or are claimed by disability. Meanwhile, people with disabilities have developed many daily life strategies that can be models for everyone coping with the pandemic.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66435/1213

Spring 2019  |  GWSS 3215 Section 001: Bodies That Matter: Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies (67770)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 229
Enrollment Status:
Closed (35 of 35 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Dis/ability is not a physical or mental defect but a form of social meaning making mapped to certain bodies in larger systems of power and privilege. Feminist approaches to dis/ability as vector of oppression intersecting and constituted through other oppression such as race, class, gender, sexuality and citizenship. Dis/ability must be understood through systems of power that construct, support, regulate, and determine the life chances of those who claim, or are claimed by disability. Deconstruct the complex ideologies of ableism and the material realities of such oppression, and work toward imagining and reconstructing a more just and equitable society.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67770/1193

Fall 2017  |  GWSS 3215 Section 001: Bodies That Matter: Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies (17466)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 130
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Dis/ability is not a physical or mental defect but a form of social meaning making mapped to certain bodies in larger systems of power and privilege. Feminist approaches to dis/ability as vector of oppression intersecting and constituted through other oppression such as race, class, gender, sexuality and citizenship. Dis/ability must be understood through systems of power that construct, support, regulate, and determine the life chances of those who claim, or are claimed by disability. Deconstruct the complex ideologies of ableism and the material realities of such oppression, and work toward imagining and reconstructing a more just and equitable society.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17466/1179

Fall 2016  |  GWSS 3215 Section 001: Bodies That Matter: Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies (18301)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Wed, Fri 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 115
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Dis/ability is not a physical or mental defect but a form of social meaning making mapped to certain bodies in larger systems of power and privilege. Feminist approaches to dis/ability as vector of oppression intersecting and constituted through other oppression such as race, class, gender, sexuality and citizenship. Dis/ability must be understood through systems of power that construct, support, regulate, and determine the life chances of those who claim, or are claimed by disability. Deconstruct the complex ideologies of ableism and the material realities of such oppression, and work toward imagining and reconstructing a more just and equitable society.
Class Description:
Following Rosemarie Garland-Thompson's defining call for an approach to Disability Studies through feminist theory, this course explores the social construction of dis/ability. Throughout the last three decades disability scholars and activists have called for an approach to dis/ability that moves away from the ?medical model? of individual deficit and defect. Dis/ability, it is argued, must be understand as a form of social meaning making that works within larger systems of power to privilege some, and marginalize others. In this course we'll fully examine this ?social model? of dis/ability, by approaching the study of dis/abled bodies (and minds) through the ever-shifting historical, socio-cultural, and political formations that name them as such. By understanding dis/ability as a vector of oppression, we'll analyze how it intersects with other vectors of oppression such as race, class, gender, sexuality and citizenship. Although the course will focus on to dis/ability in the U.S. sociocultural context, we will do so by always locating the U.S. transnationally within larger global economic, social and political systems. Disability, as the saying goes, is something we will all experience if we live long enough. As with other identity formations, dis/ability must then be understood through systems of power that construct, support, regulate, and determine the life chances of those who claim or are claimed by disability. Because systemic inequality bestows and forecloses life chances unevenly (in very particular ways) at its core this course seeks to deconstruct the complex ideologies of ableism, explore the resulting material realities of such oppression, and work toward imagining and reconstructing a more just and equitable society. GWSS 3215 will be a combination of lecture and class discussion regarding the assigned material for that day and other issues related to that day's topic. Our readings and discussions will be interdisciplinary - pulling from philosophy, history, sociology, gender/sexuality studies, and critical race theory. Moreover, we will pair this academic inquiry with personal narrative in variety of forms to ensure that our analyses center the voices of those who identify as dis/abled, and stay rooted in the lived experiences and embodied knowledges that have been historically denied. Topics include, but are not limited to: issues of representation; ethics of care; theories of biopolitics; the U.S. eugenics movement; philosophical approaches to the body/mind; crip theory; questions of citizenship and socio-political (in)equalities; and disability rights activism. Throughout the semester students will have the opportunity to tailor their work in a manner that reflects not only their academic interests but also their own interdisciplinary sites of inquiry.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18301/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
23 February 2015

Fall 2015  |  GWSS 3215 Section 001: Bodies That Matter: Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies (34503)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 151
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Dis/ability is not a physical or mental defect but a form of social meaning making mapped to certain bodies in larger systems of power and privilege. Feminist approaches to dis/ability as vector of oppression intersecting and constituted through other oppression such as race, class, gender, sexuality and citizenship. Dis/ability must be understood through systems of power that construct, support, regulate, and determine the life chances of those who claim, or are claimed by disability. Deconstruct the complex ideologies of ableism and the material realities of such oppression, and work toward imagining and reconstructing a more just and equitable society.
Class Description:
Following Rosemarie Garland-Thompson's defining call for an approach to Disability Studies through feminist theory, this course explores the social construction of dis/ability. Throughout the last three decades disability scholars and activists have called for an approach to dis/ability that moves away from the ?medical model? of individual deficit and defect. Dis/ability, it is argued, must be understand as a form of social meaning making that works within larger systems of power to privilege some, and marginalize others. In this course we'll fully examine this ?social model? of dis/ability, by approaching the study of dis/abled bodies (and minds) through the ever-shifting historical, socio-cultural, and political formations that name them as such. By understanding dis/ability as a vector of oppression, we'll analyze how it intersects with other vectors of oppression such as race, class, gender, sexuality and citizenship. Although the course will focus on to dis/ability in the U.S. sociocultural context, we will do so by always locating the U.S. transnationally within larger global economic, social and political systems. Disability, as the saying goes, is something we will all experience if we live long enough. As with other identity formations, dis/ability must then be understood through systems of power that construct, support, regulate, and determine the life chances of those who claim or are claimed by disability. Because systemic inequality bestows and forecloses life chances unevenly (in very particular ways) at its core this course seeks to deconstruct the complex ideologies of ableism, explore the resulting material realities of such oppression, and work toward imagining and reconstructing a more just and equitable society. GWSS 3215 will be a combination of lecture and class discussion regarding the assigned material for that day and other issues related to that day's topic. Our readings and discussions will be interdisciplinary - pulling from philosophy, history, sociology, gender/sexuality studies, and critical race theory. Moreover, we will pair this academic inquiry with personal narrative in variety of forms to ensure that our analyses center the voices of those who identify as dis/abled, and stay rooted in the lived experiences and embodied knowledges that have been historically denied. Topics include, but are not limited to: issues of representation; ethics of care; theories of biopolitics; the U.S. eugenics movement; philosophical approaches to the body/mind; crip theory; questions of citizenship and socio-political (in)equalities; and disability rights activism. Throughout the semester students will have the opportunity to tailor their work in a manner that reflects not only their academic interests but also their own interdisciplinary sites of inquiry.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34503/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
23 February 2015

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