Theories of the Body
Related Programs
- Communication (B.A.)
- Philosophy (Minor)
- Women's and Gender Studies (Minor)
PHIL260
This course examines the argument that bodies are only produced once they have been given meaning within a society, focusing on scholarship from disability studies, queer theory, antiracist theory, and feminist theory. What does embodiment reveal about structures of inequality and the operations of power in our society? Occasionally.