Summer Plug
Hi all, if you or someone you know is looking for a course to take over the summer, I'm offering a class on gender and medicine through the Women's Studies department during Summer Session I. It should be a lot of fun; we'll be spending much of the class hearing from guest speakers from the local community, visiting the history of medicine archives and researching some local health intitiatives going on in the Triangle.
Feel free to e-mail or talk to me after class if you're interested.
Summer Session 1: "In Sickness and Health: Gender and Medicine"
Women's Studies 150.02
In this course, we will examine women and men. That is, we will be interested in figuring out how gender might matter to medicine, and moreover, how medicine shapes our understandings of gender itself. How does medicine treat different bodies differently? How are masculinity, femininity and other configurations of gender and sexuality defined in relation to health? What is the relationship between science and identity?And finally, what kinds of violences (physical, sexual and otherwise) are perpetuated under the protection of the legitimacy of medical discourses and practices?
The course is organized around several subtopics including: Histories of Medicine, Theories of the Body, Race and Medicine, Reproductive Technologies, Medical Visual Culture, Contagion and Illness, and Global Health. In addition to lively in-class discussions and film viewings, we will venture into the archives held at the Medical Library to learn a bit about the history of gender and medicine at Duke. We will also be welcoming some visitors to class including medical professionals, local AIDS/HIV initiative organizers and some other folks working on community health projects.
Readings: We will consider various perspectives on health, sickness and gender from feminist critics, theorists of science, and from the medical “authorities” themselves. Longer works from Audre Lorde (The Cancer Journals), Judith Butler (Undoing Gender), Muriel Lederman and Ingrid Bartsch (The Gender and Science Reader) and Dorothy Robertson (Killing the Black Body)plus excerpts from many others. In addition, we will read a couple of recent medical thrillers and science fiction by Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany.
Feel free to e-mail or talk to me after class if you're interested.
Summer Session 1: "In Sickness and Health: Gender and Medicine"
Women's Studies 150.02
In this course, we will examine women and men. That is, we will be interested in figuring out how gender might matter to medicine, and moreover, how medicine shapes our understandings of gender itself. How does medicine treat different bodies differently? How are masculinity, femininity and other configurations of gender and sexuality defined in relation to health? What is the relationship between science and identity?And finally, what kinds of violences (physical, sexual and otherwise) are perpetuated under the protection of the legitimacy of medical discourses and practices?
The course is organized around several subtopics including: Histories of Medicine, Theories of the Body, Race and Medicine, Reproductive Technologies, Medical Visual Culture, Contagion and Illness, and Global Health. In addition to lively in-class discussions and film viewings, we will venture into the archives held at the Medical Library to learn a bit about the history of gender and medicine at Duke. We will also be welcoming some visitors to class including medical professionals, local AIDS/HIV initiative organizers and some other folks working on community health projects.
Readings: We will consider various perspectives on health, sickness and gender from feminist critics, theorists of science, and from the medical “authorities” themselves. Longer works from Audre Lorde (The Cancer Journals), Judith Butler (Undoing Gender), Muriel Lederman and Ingrid Bartsch (The Gender and Science Reader) and Dorothy Robertson (Killing the Black Body)plus excerpts from many others. In addition, we will read a couple of recent medical thrillers and science fiction by Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany.
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