GWSS 4415 is also offered in Fall 2022
GWSS 4415 is also offered in Spring 2022
Fall 2022 | GWSS 4415 Section 001: Transnational Body Politics (33507)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 127
- Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 30 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:
- We will study how body politics mediate our knowledge in understanding mechanisms of race , class and gender. How this relation reformulates body politics; This class also reading body politics by undertaking specific methodology through narratives and attention to variant of responses to living mechanisms. Although the circulation of knowledge, good and the global demand within capitalist modality reaffirm what does really meant transnational; but feminist methodology remind us that the demand of consciousness, positionality and solidarity are always urgent in current living condition.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- undergraduate beyond freshman year and professional who interested to work on many international task.
- Grading:
- A/F
- Exam Format:
- Final Paper
- Class Format:
- Lecture & Discussion
- Workload:
- reading response, research project and final paper.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33507/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 September 2022
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