WGSS 249
Body Politics, Gender and Religion in South Asia Fall 2012
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed ASST 248 / REL 248 / ANTH 248
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This course examines the relationship between body, gender, and religion or community in South Asia, using three countries–India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh–and three major religions–Induism, Buddhism, and Islam–as its focus. It begins by unpacking the critical theories in which the human body serves as map for society and vice versa. It then examines the South Asian discourses linking body with nation, population, or purity. It explores a South Asian sociology of the body that occasions solidarity as well as social suffering and structural violence. Along the way, it looks at a diverse set of practices that count or control bodies to produce social cohesion including yoga, sex selection, family planning, monasticism, and fundamentalism. The body emerges as a lens through which to view the production of a politics of identity as much as fragmentation or social hierarchy.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 25
Expected: 25
Class#: 1686
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: writing on class blog, final paper, participation in class discussion and presentations
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: majors in Religion, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies and Anthropology
Distributions: Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ASST 248 Division II REL 248 Division II ANTH 248 Division II WGSS 249 Division II
Attributes: INST South + Southeast Asia Studies Electives
PHLH Bioethics + Interpretations of Health
PHLH Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health
WGSS Racial Sexual + Cultural Diversity Courses

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