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Feminist thought is not one unified body, but has many influences and debates within it. Through primary source readings, discussion, and written work, you will explore the development of feminist thought, examine major feminist theoretical approaches and the key debates among feminists, and see how theory is applied to action.

This course focuses on contemporary literature and film by women in the Arab World. You’ll see how authors and filmmakers work to subvert stereotypes that long prevail in the West. This course examines issues of gender, class, education, nationalism, and religion. The main focus is reading and discussion of texts and films, as well as research in theory, criticism, history, religious studies, current events, and popular culture.

This course guides students through an anthropological examination of gender as a social construct across cultures. You’ll begin with an examination of how gender has been defined as a category within anthropology and how gendered experiences effect fieldwork and research. You’ll examine connections between gender, identity, and the body, as well as how gender plays out in the arenas of kinship, sexuality, ritual, and performance in order to reveal the diversity of expressions of gender across time and cultures.