The ways in which we understand 'the body' has profound implications for how we live and work as gendered, sexed, and raced subjects. This interdisciplinary unit investigates the way bodies can be 'read' over time and place through medical, scientific, legal, literary and philosophical discourses, paying particular attention to the sexed body. It is interested in the way bodies are constructed through narrative tropes and conventions from the past (e.g. in the way phlegm and humours were thought to operate), the present (like the volatile hormonal body) and the future (e.g. viral operations pertaining to both bodies and machines). Students think about the ways in which power relations are... -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Alison Bartlett
