Gender Studies

GWS1007 History of the Body (O) (Cross-listed: HIST 1007) 3 ch (3C) (W)

Examine how the body has been imagined, experienced, controlled, and understood, both historically and today, by art, medicine, technology, religion, science, and popular culture. Consider the sexualized and pregnant body, the sinful and diseased body, the aesthetic and the medicalized body, and the body as machine from Galen and Descartes to the age of the computer, the cyborg, and the gene. NOTE: Credit cannot be counted for both GWS 1007 and HIST 1007.