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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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