New Gender Studies Course this Fall: Enroll in GNST 2123: Gender, Bodies and Technologies
The Gender Studies Program is offering two sections of a new course this fall: GNST 2123: Gender, Bodies, and Technologies. Make sure you enroll in a spot today! MWF at 11:50 a.m.-12:40 p.m. and 2-2:50 p.m.
Course description:
This course explores the relationship between gendered bodies and technology. Students will engage with theories of the body and its interactions/intersections with technology. Through an examination of technologies aimed at the reproductive and sexual body (birth control, condoms, vibrators, egg freezing, IVF and gene editing, among others), students will engage with both the liberatory and oppressive potential of technology. Through an examination of representations of technology and the body, students will theorize assumptions about technology and bodies in ways that underscore how social geography is shaped by technologies. Here, technology is imagined as interventions into the body which seek to reshape, enhance, enable, disable or control bodily processes. Students will use theories of power and technologies of self to better understand the relationship between gender, bodies and technology.
Questions? Email Lisa Corrigan at lcorriga@uark.edu.
Contacts
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, associate director of gender studies
Gender Studies Program
847-217-1630,
calabret@uark.edu
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