Drawing on the readings covered in class as well as outside research, use the framework of phenomenology to give an account, using examples, of how the body’s susceptibility to violence, and its capacities for motion, are embedded in social realities such as race and gender.

LENGTH: 7-8 pages

PROMPT: The body is a site where pain and violence are experienced, and also a site of human freedom. Drawing on the readings covered in class as well as outside research, use the framework of phenomenology to give an account, using examples, of how the body’s susceptibility to violence, and its capacities for motion, are embedded in social realities such as race and gender.

This paper will require some external research. You are expected to spend time in the library locating and using external resources. In addition to delving further into the works already on our syllabus, here are some brief bibliographical pointers:

Bartky, Sandra Lee, Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression (1990, Routledge)
Lee, Emily Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race (SUNY Press, 2014)
Moran, Dermot, Introduction to Phenomenology (Routledge, 2000)
Ngo, Helen, Habits of Racism: A phenomenology of racism and racialized embodiment (Lexington Books, 2017)
Sokolowski, Robert, Introduction to Phenomenology (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Weiss, Gail, Ann Murphy, and Gayle Salamon, 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology (Northwestern University Press, 2019)