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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? How and why has the intersex body been pathologized and medicalized in the western world? What are the causes and consequences of this? 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 the scientific and cultural narrative of the intersex body/ non cis-gender/heteronormative body?
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.
Draw on the Fausto-Sterling, NPR, Gober and Tuana articles to support your response.
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