Theoretical Analysis Paper
How do our bodies shape our lives? How and in what ways is the body an orientating device (pace Sara Ahmed) that allows us (and others) to make sense of the world in which we live? What does thinking about the body in historical terms reveal to us about power relations between historical actors? Be sure to attend to the capacity of gender and the body to illuminate related categories of social differentiation such as race and class. You might wish to discuss, among other things: the ways in which capitalist labor imprints itself on our bodies, the body as a site of resistance to normativity, the body as a site for society to work through gendered and sexualized anxieties, the body as a site of knowledge production about the Other, the ways in which transgendered bodies inhabit traditionally heterosexual spaces, and/or the body as an object of bio-political control. Consider these ideas merely suggestive; you may take your paper in any direction you choose. Just make sure that you clearly introduce the scope of your discussion and your argument in the introduction of your paper.
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