WGS 2080 - Thinking Bodies

3 cr

Crosslisted as SOC 2080
An interdisciplinary study of the ways in which society thinks about bodies in relation to social locations. Students examine the various ways in which bodies are socially constructed, disciplined, and assigned meanings based on race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, age, and dis/ability. This course encourages students to consider experiences of embodiment from sociological and feminist perspectives.
This course fulfills the Social and Behavioral Understanding Frame of Reference.
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