@article{Windsor_2013, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Syllabus for Sociology of the Body}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/syllabus-for-sociology-of-the-body}, abstractNote={This syllabus is for a course that examines the body and embodiment through a sociological lens. It is designed as a special topics sociology course for students of all majors and educational levels. The assessments used in this course reflect this diverse body of students. Key themes explored in this course include: defining what counts as a body, visible and hidden embodiments, structural processes that contain and restrain bodies, categorizing bodies, marginalization of anomalous bodies, working bodies, embodying resistance, bodily transformations, microscopic body parts, embodiment without bodies, and the life and death of the body. The course convened during an intensive one-month term that met for three hours over four days a week during January, but the syllabus may also be adapted for a traditional semester or quarter terms. This syllabus aims to help students apply critical thinking skills in analyzing and deconstructing sociological meanings of the body.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Windsor, Elroi}, year={2013}, month={Mar.} }