CTSJ 222 Body Politics

The course offers an interdisciplinary analysis of gender power and the body. The theoretical center of the course will be Foucault's work on biopower including Discipline and Punish and Foucault 2.0. Topics include: class and the body (Atwood Bodily Harm and Larsen Passing); law and the female body (Wendy Williams Mary Poovey); science and gender (Emily Martin Thomas Laqueur); pornography (Catherine McKinnon Laura Kipnis); race body and gender (Morrison Beloved; Lauren Berlant Judith Butler); multiculturalism and cross-race identifications (John Stahl Imitation of Life Wyatt "The Hazards of ldealization"); and Latin American perspectives on gender torture and memory.