Instructor: Dr. Kim Snowden
An interdisciplinary examination of the body, exploring how social relations and space are implicated in the constitution and experience of gendered bodies and identities, with an emphasis on feminist analyses of body-societal relations. Recommended pre-requisites: either all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102 or third-year standing.
Monstrous Bodies/Monstrous Texts
Description: This course will address the ways that the body is rendered monstrous through discourses of misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and racism with a focus on representations of monstrous bodies in literature, film, and popular culture and feminist and social justice theories of monstrosity. The class will explore the ways in which reproduction and reproductive politics are represented in fiction and film, how popular culture represents and reproduces monstrous bodies, and will critically engage with the posthuman monster and its reproduction through technology, media, and popular culture. We will read and analyze a variety of fiction and film including novels, short stories, speculative fiction, science fiction, horror, and young adult fiction. Fictional texts, media, and authors include: Octavia Butler, Daniel Heath Justice, Hiromi Goto, Rebecca Roanhorse, Silvia-Moreno Garcia, Kim Fu, Tania de Rozario, Alien, Ex Machina, Mad Max: Fury Road, Ginger Snaps, and others.