Mar 29, 2024  
2016-2017 
    
2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIS 378 - Gender and Sexuality in Modern South Asia


This course will investigate constructions of gender relations as power relations, as well as perceptions of sexuality in South Asia as historical phenomena from the seventeenth century to the present. Subjects include: cultural conceptions of family; notions of same-sex desire; law, tradition, and reform; the making of gender relations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as they were informed by colonialism and nationalism.

 

Satisfies a major requirement in History

Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in South Asian Studies

Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in International Studies

Satisfies a distribution requirement in Historical Thought

Meets the cultural diversity graduation requirement