Gender, Race, & Sports

Catalog description

This interdisciplinary course approaches sports as an institution with tremendous cultural, social, economic, and political power. Using feminist theoretical frameworks, students interrogate assumptions about the human body, while attending to the ways that popular discourses about gender and race frame our understanding of athletic performance. Students consider how sport is used to delineate membership, community and belonging. Possible topics include gender verification, scientific racism, nationalism, the business of sport, scandal, and fan culture.