IDLS 3040 - The Naked Self

5 credit hours
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.”