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Spring 2013 History BC4788 section 001 GENDER,SEXUALITY,POWER,AFRICA | |
| Call Number | 01726 |
| Day & Time Location |
R 6:10pm-8:00pm 201 Lehman Hall (Barnard) |
| Points | 4 |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | Abosede A George |
| Type | SEMINAR |
| Course Description | The central themes of the course will be changes and continuities in gender performance and the politics of gender and sexual difference within African societies; social, political, and economic processes that have influenced gender and sexual identities; connections between gender, sexuality, inequality, and activism at local, national, continental, and global scales. Readings will include key works in African gender history and the history of sexuality, along with texts, broadly construed, on gender, sexuality, and governance from other disciplines or focusing on other parts of the world. The main objective of the course is to introduce students to significant debates in the study of gender and sexuality in the African History field. Emphasis will be placed on the theoretical and methodological approaches that have informed scholarship on gender and sexuality in African History. Field(s): AFR |
| Web Site | CourseWorks |
| Department | History @Barnard |
| Enrollment | 11 students (20 max) as of 11:44PM Tuesday, May 21, 2013 |
| Subject | History |
| Number | BC4788 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Barnard College |
| Open To | Barnard, Columbia College, Engineering and Applied Science, General Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Science |
| Campus | Barnard College |
| Note | APPLIC REQ:SEE UNDERGRAD SEMINAR SECTION OF DEPTS WEBSITE |
| Section key | 20131HIST4788X001 |
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