This seminar examines the changing history, aesthetics, politics, and meanings of fatness, fitness, and wellness using a performance studies perspective, critical qualitative interdisciplinary scholarship, journalistic and popular accounts, and memoir. Intersectional dimensions of fatness are central to the course. The seminar’s key questions include: How does this “f-word” discipline and regulate bodies in/as public? What is the “ideal” American public body and who gets to occupy that position? How are health, fitness, and wellness commercial, media, political, and religious projects? No previous performance experience necessary.
Distribution Area: SA
Prerequisites and Restrictions
No prior dance or performance experience is necessary.
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