ENGL 581

Spring 2014

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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: A college course devoted entirely to criticism or consent of instructor.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
32282
Lecture-Discussion
E
1:00PM -2:50PM
M
136 Davenport Hall
Littlefield, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Section Title:
Feminist Science Studies
Section Info:
Topic Section E: Feminist Science Studies Snapshots and case studies will inform our course: Why are mammals called mammals? (Linnaeus classification and the politics of wet nursing, 1758) What do racial politics have to do with the origins of modern gynecology? (Sims experiments, 1845-1849) Why is it that the female dinosaurs run amuck in Jurassic Park? (1993) How could Harvard?s president lecture about innate differences in male and female scientists in 2005? This course is an introduction to feminist science studies and technology and gender studies. We will explore how scientists, sciences, and technologies envision, create and politicize gendered bodies. Our focus will be on feminist perspectives, but this lens also allows us to explore the ways in which men are constituted as subjects and objects of the scientific gaze. We will begin by asking several practical questions: who?s doing science? How are these sciences constituted? We will then work through a series of case studies, like those listed above, that address the ways in which gendered bodies have been used in science and created by scientific discourse. Finally, we will address the ways in which fiction provides a tool-kit for scientists and theorists interested in challenging traditional relationships between science and the body.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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