GWS 495-01 - Senior Seminar: Disruptive Bodies

4 credits (Spring)

Synonyms for ‘disruptive’ include being unruly, unsettling, transgressive, deviant, threatening, disobedient, and problematic. This GWSS seminar takes on the concept of disruptive social bodies to examine how minoritized individuals and groups resist their subordination and claim areas of society reserved for “normals.” Drawing on the conceptual resources of the course, students will undertake projects in which they will empirically investigate some aspect of the lived experience and social significance of a disruptive body.

Prerequisite: GWS 111, GWS 249, senior status, and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies major.
Instructor: Beauboeuf-Lafontant