GSS 440 - Matters of Life and Death: Biopower, Necropolitics, Sex

In this course, we will investigate how definitions of life and death have evolved over the last two centuries and how those definitions have shaped American culture and policy. We will ask who is empowered to make decisions about who lives and who dies and by what authority; what bodies are included and excluded in discussions of bio- and necropolitics; and how gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion frame and become framed by matters of life and death.

Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement