SOC458 Body and Embodiment

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Kateřina Lišková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D.
Division of Social Anthropology – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Timetable
Tue 16:00–17:40 U34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This class introduces students to the core social science approaches to analyzing body and embodiment. The body is perceived as a cultural and social object as well as the actor of various social processes. Our background and a point of reference lies within social anthropology and feminist theory. At the end of this course, students should be able to understand various concepts of body and embodiment.
Syllabus
  • Anthropology and the body
  • Disciplining the female body and resistance
  • Biopolitics today
  • Rape
  • Ethnography of powerful/powerless bodies
  • Desiring knowledge/knowledge of desire
  • Performativity of the bodies
  • Embodied action
  • Womens bodies as an object/product of medicine
Literature
  • MORTON, Stephen. Foucault in an age of terror : rethinking biopolitics and the defence of society. Edited by Stephen Bygrave. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, ix, 234. ISBN 9780230574335. info
  • MURPHY, Robert Francis. Umlčené tělo. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2001, 188 s. ISBN 80-85850-98-2. info
  • Biopolitics : the politics of the body, race and nature. Edited by Ferenc Fehér - Ágnes Heller - Sonja Puntscher Riekmann. Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1996, xii, 177. ISBN 1859721273. info
  • BORDO, Susan. Unberable weight : feminism, western culture, and the body. 1st print. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, x, 361. ISBN 0520088832. info
  • BUTLER, Judith. Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of sex. New York: Routledge, 1993, xii, 288. ISBN 0415903661. info
  • BARTKY, Sandra Lee. Femininity and domination : studies in the phenomenology of oppression. New York: Routledge, 1990, xiii, 141. ISBN 0415901863. info
Assessment methods
written preparation for classes, final essay, oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
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