Feb 05, 2025  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2021-22 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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WGSS 6000 - Gendered Bodies


Students explore how gendered bodies are created within systems of power and how gender is embodied through beauty, race, sports and play, menstruation, sexuality, disability, cancer, intersex and trans bodies, and pregnancy.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to outline appropriate use of key terms for gender identity: for example, gender, sex, sexuality, gender fluid, gender non-binary, trans, queer, intersex.
  • Students will be able to identify and describe practices of “gender policing” bodies in a range of social contexts both within the healthcare system and within the larger social context.
  • Students will be able to identify the role of healthcare systems in maintaining or resisting existing gender norms and practices.



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