Feminist Cultural Stdy Biomed

Catalog description

From vaccines and contraception, to erectile dysfunction drugs and clinical trials, biomedicine and biotechnologies are increasingly powerful and transformative modalities transnationally. Incorporating methods from feminist postcolonial, cultural, media and technoscience studies, this course examines biomedicine by critically attending to its intersections with gender, race, sexuality, colonialism, capitalism and culture. Class lectures will be supplemented by films and guest speakers. No freshman. Offered regularly in spring.