History 149F - Nature's Body: The Entwined Histories of Science, Gender, and Race

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Hamilton College

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People in the past explained differences in skin color and reproductive anatomy in ways that seem strange to us today. Yet our ideas that race and sex are biological and fixed at birth are equally strange - they are modern concepts deeply connected to colonialism, slavery, and the Enlightenment. This course examines how scientific ideas about immutable race and sex became dominant in "the West." Students analyze primary sources from the classical to the modern eras written by explorers, natural and moral philosophers, botanists, social Darwinists, and birth control proponents. (Writing-intensive.) Stress on basic skills in the study of history. Maximum enrollment, 20. Rebecca Tally.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.hamilton.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 859-4011

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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