Spring 2025 First-Year Writing (Barnard) BC1113 section 002

BODIES AND DESIRES

Call Number 00813
Day & Time
Location
TR 1:10pm-2:25pm
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Meredith A Benjamin
Type LECTURE
Course Description

In this First-Year Writing course, we’ll examine a series of questions centered on bodies and desires. How is the body both constructed and policed through narratives of gender, race, class, and sexuality? How are bodies and desire mediated through and represented in language? We’ll consider how bodies become not just sites of objectification or of power but also of pleasure. We’ll think about the politics of respectability, in questioning who can be a subject, rather than object, of desire. In our analyses, we’ll work to challenge fixed or binary understandings of gender and power. Readings are subject to change but may include: Nella Larsen's Passing, Eliza Haywood's Fantomina, short stories by Luisa Valenzuela, Carmen Maria Machado and/or ir'ene lara Silva, poems by Sally Wen Mao and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and conversation texts by Audre Lorde, Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, John Berger, and/or Judith Butler.

Web Site Vergil
Department First-Year Writing @Barnard
Enrollment 15 students (15 max) as of 11:06AM Thursday, December 5, 2024
Status Full
Subject First-Year Writing (Barnard)
Number BC1113
Section 002
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard College
Section key 20251FYWB1113X002