LLS 387

Spring 2022 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 18-May 4

Race, Gender and the Body

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Credit: 3 hours.

Focuses generally on the relation between power and the body. In western culture, the body is typically thought of as a natural, biological entity. However, as a number of social theorists have pointed out, the body can never be reduced to mere biology. It is also always a product of culture and therefore necessarily implicated in relations of dominance and subordination. Using this framework, the class is specifically concerned with how raced, gendered, and sexed bodies have been imagined in US culture (as abnormal, diseased, criminal, etc.) and with how such bodies have been rendered objects of surveillance, discipline, and regulation.

Same as SOC 387. Prerequisite: LLS 100.

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LLS 387 class schedule data for spring 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	58955	Lecture-Discussion	A	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	Foreign Languages Building	Flores, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Section Info: Topic: "Bodies on the Line." Focuses generally on the relation between power and the body. The course begins with the proposition that all politics are a politics of the body. We will therefore set out to examine how bodies are framed and deployed for political functions, how they circulate or are constrained, and how people choose to put their own bodies on the line as testimony of their political investments. We will further interrogate how these political bodies create physical vocabularies of movement as they negotiate identities, display themselves or are displayed for visual consumption, protest social inequalities, and experience pain/injury--even death.