Collins Living-Learning Center

The body is the site of countless overlapping social phenomena. Our bodily features (size, shape, skin color, ability, etc.) take on social meaning as we move through the world. Countless social forces aim to shape, control, and guide our bodies. In this class, we’ll examine the ways bodies are politicized—how they’re marked as deviant, defective, or abnormal, how they’re racialized and gendered, and how resistant practices of embodiment defy dominant conceptions of what a body should be like. Our readings include philosophical, historical, sociological, and even poetic discussions of embodiment. On this interdisciplinary journey, we’ll apply the theoretical concepts we encounter to real world-cases and to our own embodied experiences.

Instructor: Katrina Haaksma

Collins Seminars: Selected by Board of Educational Programming (BOEP)

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