Drawing on a case studies approach, this course asks students to identify, critique and assess the appropriateness of selected theoretical and epistemological perspectives and practices from the fields of sexualities, genders and bodies. Case studies will consider health; sexual pleasure; reproductive rights; biopolitics; environmentalism; technoscience; media and futurities; political and social justice movements; and archival collections and absences, among others.
Drawing on a case studies approach, this course asks students to identify, critique and assess the appropriateness of selected theoretical and epistemological perspectives and practices from the fields of sexualities, genders and bodies. Case studies will consider health; sexual pleasure; reproductive rights; biopolitics; environmentalism; technoscience; media and futurities; political and social justice movements; and archival collections and absences, among others.