Embodying Race and Gender

Catalog description

This course will explore how race and gender are mapped on to our bodies by others, and how we use our bodies to express gender and race in our everyday lives and relations. We will think about how the body moves, how the body is perceived by others, and how our bodies impact the overall shape of the environments that we inhabit with others. To think about the raced and gendered body, we will read the works of feminists (Iris M. Young and Linda Alcoff), black feminists (Hortense Spillers and Toni Morrison) and queer theorists (C. Riley Snorton and Gayle Salamon) to name a few. Graduate students are also welcome to take this course.