GSFS 060 - Inquiries in Critical Fat Studies

Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Module
Half Course
Credits: 2 credits
Attribute: 2SS

This module on Critical Fat Studies focuses on the way that fat bodies are also implicitly marginalized by gender and race. Students will discuss contemporary and foundational texts in fat studies and will undertake intersectional analyses of mainstream discourses about fat bodies. How do disability, race, sexual orientation, class, and health all impact the way we read fat bodies, and the fat people who inhabit them? Who gets to claim fatness as an identity, and what does it even mean to “be” fat? Students will co-facilitate a class discussion, author autobiographical texts, and compete a final research paper.

Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: E. Director