How is knowledge about the body gendered; how does language shape this? How do ideas of sex and gender become somatic (relating to the body) facts? How do gender and identity develop? We’ve discussed how scientists are a product of culture and therefore scientific knowledge may be influenced by unconscious bias- how does this impact how the ‘social’ becomes material (aka ‘fact’)? And how does this frame scientific and cultural narrative of the intersex body/ non cis-gender/heteronormative body?
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What are your thoughts on biopower and biopolitics and how these systems intersect with human rights? Illustrate this with examples (either historical/contemporary) of laws and policies that regulate the human body and why.
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