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106-088 Body Cultures | |
Note | Formerly available as 106-443. Students who have completed 106-443 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Annamarie Jagose |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | This subject focuses on the ways in which 'the body' is culturally inscribed in a variety of contemporary and historic discourses. Understanding the body as an irreducibly material object, the subject analyses how the body comes to be meaningful within various discourses such as those of colonialism, epidemiology and cyberspace. The native body, the pregnant body, the fat body and the freak body will be considered as case studies. Students should develop a knowledge of the ways the body, both private and public, individualised yet heavily regulated, is a productive focus for thinking about the inscriptions of power in our everyday lives. |
Assessment | Written work of up to 5000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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