Topic: Beauty and Bodies in America

Appropriate for First Year students.

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
4:00pm-6:30pm
W
Candler Library 114
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. 43975 TBA.

January 12, 2011- April 25, 2011

Crosslisted: WS285-001.

Catalog Description: An introduction to interdisciplinary analysis through topics that are best understood through multiple methodologies and forms of evidence. The ILA and IDS program support interdisciplinary inquiry across Emory College; this course will frequently be cross-listed with other departments.

Semester Details:

Content: This course examines the idea of feminine beauty and explores possibilities for resisting, negotiating, or revising the appearance standards that feminine beauty prescribes. We will  explore social practices and material culture of feminine beauty, gauging how beauty can be detrimental and/or beneficial both to women whose bodies do not conform to beauty's standards as well as to women who embody beauty's requirements. This interrogation of beauty and its practices will open out to survey the gender, race, ability, class, and sexuality systems.

All of the readings will be on e-reserves.



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