HIST 489T(S) History and the Body (Same as Women's and Gender Studies 489T) (W)

Does the body have a history? In introducing students to new historical work on the body, this tutorial challenges assumptions about what we take to be deeply natural and stable over time-our bodily selves. We will read scholarship that addresses the body as a subject of historical research and interpretation, paying particular attention to the constitution of the body in relation to historical configurations of gender, race, sexuality, and ability/disability.
Format: tutorial. Requirements: Weekly one-hour sessions with the instructor and a fellow student. Every other week the student will write and present orally a 5- to 6-page paper on the assigned readings of that week. On alternate weeks, the student will write and present a 2-page critique of the fellow student's paper. Students will be evaluated on their written work and their analyses of their partner's work. No prerequisites. Enrollment limit: 10 (expected: 10). Preference given to History majors.
Group A

Tutorial meetings to be arranged. KUNZEL