INQ-110 | Image/Body/Voice

Full Title: Image/Body/Voice

Topic Description:

In this class, we will read and write about bodies. We all encounter the world in bodies. Most cultures have very clear ideas about how bodies should be presented in the world as well as standards of attractiveness and notions about ideal bodies. Gender norms also shape ideas about bodies as do age-based, interest-based, and ethnic groups. Most people care about how we “look” and respond to others based upon how they “look;” and we are constantly working on our bodies in various ways to achieve a variety of social rewards. Bodies are simultaneously taken for granted and the focus of a lot of our energy. Listening to the voices of others as they explore the significance of bodies, we will find our own ways of articulating the complex meanings that bodies have for us as individuals and as members of social groups.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: February 2009