GWSS 4415 is also offered in Fall 2022
GWSS 4415 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2018 | GWSS 4415 Section 001: Transnational Body Politics (68141)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
GLBT 4415 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
- Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Our bodies are always already modified. How we shape our bodies can express our deepest feelings about who we are. Body modification can also represent cultural and subcultural identifications or expectations based on gender, race, class, and sexuality. But what we do with our bodies is never separate from the politics of cultural difference and fluctuating ideas of what is acceptable or unacceptable, civilized or uncivilized. These ideas are historically and culturally specific. This course looks at body modification on a transnational scale to ask how we come to know what differentiates "mutilation" from "correction." We ask how feminist, queer, and critical race theories illuminate these debates, reading across historical, anthropological, medical and literary texts. Weekly topics include gender, race and cosmetic surgery; skin whitening technologies; transnational gender reassignment; surgical tourism; female genital cutting; piercing, tattooing and scarification; the cultural politics of hair; and body modification in the context of transnational feminized labor.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68141/1183
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2018 Gender, Women, & Sexuality Std Classes