Using a feminist critical lens, this course examines issues relating to gender, the body, and embodiment. Topics to be considered include (but are not limited to) social and scientific constructions of the body; constructions of beauty, health, fitness, and fatness; intersectionality and embodiment; incongruence of sex and gender identification; symbolic and literal cultural discipline and punishment of gendered bodies; artistic representations of and responses to gendered bodies; embodiment in trans and queer communities; embodiment in Indigenous and racialized communities [3 credits]
Using a feminist critical lens, this course examines issues relating to gender, the body, and embodiment. Topics to be considered include (but are not limited to) social and scientific constructions of the body; constructions of beauty, health, fitness, and fatness; intersectionality and embodiment; incongruence of sex and gender identification; symbolic and literal cultural discipline and punishment of gendered bodies; artistic representations of and responses to gendered bodies; embodiment in trans and queer communities; embodiment in Indigenous and racialized communities [3 credits]
