Compare/Contrast Application Activity: women’s studies’ relationship to disability and embodiment. Our learning materials engage the body in varied ways: as a site of resistance and possibility; as subject to violence within systems of oppression; as a source of pain and pleasure. To start, select two of this week’s learning materials that help you understand or grapple with these multiple – sometimes contradictory – meanings. Please offer a scholarly reflection (250 words) that attends to the resonances and tensions between your two selected learning materials. You are welcome to engage the following guiding questions as is helpful:
How are bodies or embodiment positioned or theorized within your selected text(s)?
What is the intent or purpose of your selected text(s)?
Are there moments – most likely a quotation – from your selected text(s) that are particularly illuminating or impactful?
Are there element(s) of your selected text(s) that remain fuzzy or unclear?
How do these texts echo, complicate, trouble, or otherwise relate to one another?
How does attention to bodies and embodiment deepen, shift, expand, or otherwise inform your understanding of women’s studies and feminism and their work in the world?
How might you carry forward these frameworks and approaches within our course? In your broader life-work?
The Joyful Intersections of Disability Justice, Care, and Pleasure
