printer friendly pageFEMGEN 250: Sex, Gender, and Power in Modern China (CHINGEN 150, CHINGEN 250, FEMGEN 150)
Investigates how sex, gender, and power are entwined in the Chinese experience of modernity. Topics include anti-footbinding campaigns, free love/free sex, women's mobilization in revolution and war, the new Marriage Law of 1950, Mao's iron girls, postsocialist celebrations of sensuality, and emergent queer politics. Readings range from feminist theory to China-focused historiography, ethnography, memoir, biography, fiction, essay, and film. All course materials are in English.
Last offered: Spring 2015
FEMGEN 250T: Transnational Sexualities (CSRE 150T, FEMGEN 150T, TAPS 150T, TAPS 250T)
Transnational Sexualites is an inter-disciplinary course that considers the aesthetic, social, and political formation of sexual subjectivities in a global world. How does the transnational traffic of people, media, images, finance, and commodities shape the force-fields of desire? What is the relationship between political economies and libidinal economies? The course will explore the erotics of race and religion, neoliberalism and globalization within a wide range geo-political contexts including Indonesia, China, Egypt, India, South Africa, US, among others.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Menon, J. (PI)
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Hoxworth, K. (TA)
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