Taught by: Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong, Visiting Assistant Professor

The lab for this course will take up issues of "sex" as a biological category and its relation to "gender" as a social category. Issues such as reproductive rights, comparable health care and funding for the study of women’s diseases such as breast cancer are only some of the ways activists have illustrated the links between women/sex/discrimination. We will study a wide range of biological theories about sexual difference and their influence on movements for social change. We will also discuss anatomy and individual control of the body for young women in the "epidemic" of anorexia/bulemia.