English 9194

Feminist Theory, Biopolitics and the Racialized Body

Instructor: Professor J. Emberley.
Summer 2021 Full Year Course Equivalent.

Students will read theoretical and critical materials on biopolitics from feminist and anti-racist perspectives. Focusing on the body as a site of meaning, students will discuss and examine textual and visual constructions, historical contexts, and concepts of "difference" and representation, in literature, history and other cultural media.