SOCI 395: Special Topics in Sociology

SOCI 395-004: Gender, Sexuality, Disability
(Fall 2016)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W

West Building 1007

Section Information for Fall 2016

This course will offer an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of feminist and queer disability studies. Topics and issues we will address during the course of the semester include: the social construction of disability as it pertains to questions of gender, sexuality, race, and class; representations of disability in literature and film; disability, embodiment, and reproductive rights; queerness and disability; the concept of “passing” and invisible identities: asexuality and disability; and rhetorics of disability in the U.S. academy. We will pay particularly close attention to how theories of dis/ability and compulsory able-bodiedness intersect with other interdisciplinary areas of thought, including feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, and theories of transnationalism and globalization. In doing so, our primary goal will be to use feminist and queer perspectives on disability and compulsory able-bodiedness as a basis for understanding social inequalities, and as a way of developing forms of resistance to those inequalities.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Introduces the research interests of the faculty, offering new courses that reflect current issues not yet incorporated into the curriculum. Offers, in addition, advanced study into topics covered in the standing curriculum. Topics change by semester. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 18 credits.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Recommended Prerequisite: SOCI 101
Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Lecture, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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