Academic Calendar - 2025
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2025
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3460F/G
BLOOD, BREATH, AND THE BLACK BODY
Drawing on Black feminism, queer theories, and Black Studies, this course examines questions of health, risk, and care. Students consider how Black people have been depicted as non-human and vectors of disease. Topics may include politics of blood donation, Blackness and fatphobia, anti-Black racism and pandemics, sexual risk and pleasure.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media and Communication Studies.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Breadth:
CATEGORY B
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CATEGORY A
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Subject Code: GSWS
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3460F/G
BLOOD, BREATH, AND THE BLACK BODY
Drawing on Black feminism, queer theories, and Black Studies, this course examines questions of health, risk, and care. Students consider how Black people have been depicted as non-human and vectors of disease. Topics may include politics of blood donation, Blackness and fatphobia, anti-Black racism and pandemics, sexual risk and pleasure.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media and Communication Studies.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Inter-Faculty Program | MAJOR IN BLACK STUDIES
Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Inter-Faculty Program | MINOR IN SEXUALITY STUDIES