IDLS-3040 : The Naked Self

Interdisciplinary LBST | College of Arts and Sciences | UG

  • LSAP Goal 2 Response to the Cry of the Poor
  • LSAP Goal 7 Community Resilience and Empowerment
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 5 Gender Equality
  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 16 Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

About this Course

Our bodies are arguably what we know the best-the intimacies of what it means to be you and me are experiences that seem to require first-hand knowledge and inhabitation of our physical selves. And yet, how much autonomy do we actually have over our bodily selves? How much of your body is really yours? Within the context of issues such as global sex trafficking, population control, immigration and transnational identities, assimilation and genocide, The Naked Self will examine the limits and privileges of our western-centric concepts of liberty, consent and choice.