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ANTH374: Gender and Postcolonialism |
This course explores the construction of masculinity and femininity as it has been shaped by the unequal interaction between western colonialism and the defensive postures of anti-colonial nationalisms. How does this history inform the present nationalisms of religion and ethnicity, even within independent post-colonial nations, and in immigrant enclaves in western nations? How does it increase the pressures on women as bearers of identity, as they negotiate nationalism, postcolonial development and globalization? The course introduces students to the scholarship and activism of non-western women's movements, both in respect of their own histories of modernity, and in their contestation of western representations of 'third world women' as victims.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
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TBA - To be Advised
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| Staff Contact: |
Dr Ram |
| Prerequisites: |
8cp in ANTH at 200-level, or 12cp at 200-level or above in Humanities/Social Sciences
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| Unit Designations: |
Social Science
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Graded
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| Offered By: |
Department of Anthropology |
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