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Dec 26, 2024
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WST 102 - (IS) Body Politics
Once a Year
This course addresses the various ways that people imagine, represent,
regulate, and discipline their own and others’ bodies. For instance,
how do understandings of the human body vary across cultures or at
different historical moments within a culture? Whose bodies are
privileged and whose bodies are marginalized? How are our bodies marked
by social practices? We will consider how science and medicine, law,
philosophy, literature, and the media contribute to individual and
shared understandings of our bodies. We will also explore how claims
regarding the natural facts of the human body have been used to
organize, justify, enforce, and resist unequal social relations.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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