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Sex and the City of God: Sexuality, Gender and the Body (Course Syllabus)

This course analyzes the social construction of personhood, gender, sex, sexuality and the body through an analysis of interrelated networks of discourse including Christianities, medical, media, pop culture, economics, race and technologies. This course is interdisciplinary in its approach. The students will become familiar with contemporary theorists and sub-disciplines germane in the study of gender, sexuality, the body and personhood. The interdisciplinary approaches privileged in this course include feminism, Christian theology, race, psychoanalysis and sociological paradigms. As a result of active participation in this course, the student will acquire the ability to evaluate a range of social, political, theological and theoretical constructions of and approaches to sexuality, sex, gender, identity, the body and personhood in the diverse iterations embedded in socio-historical contexts.