RELGST 1622 - BODY SIZE AROUND THE GLOBE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce students to the complex interplay between body size, culture, religion, and social perception. We will discuss basic concepts within the critical research of body size, such as fat stigma, BMI, the ‘obesity epidemic’ and more, while tracing the intersections between gender ideologies, cultural contexts, medical perspectives, and religious beliefs. Our conversations will examine the following questions: How do cultures around the globe construct a ‘correct’ and healthy body size? How do people of various gender, racial, and sexual identities experience living in bigger bodies, and how does this change depending on national, religious, regional, and cultural contexts? Can weight loss and diets relieve stigma? How do current understandings of fat stigma and fat acceptance activist groups change the discourse? Throughout the course, students will be exposed to a variety of questions and theoretical perspectives from religious studies, fat studies, and the sociology and anthropology of body size.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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