Gender In History

AY2014/2015 Semester 1

This course analyses ideas about gender and sexuality in the modern world, as well as the experiences of modern men and women. In this course, we rethink modern categorisations of gender and sexuality. Students will deconstruct dual gender systems through analysing diverse gender roles and multiple genders in different parts of the world. We will analyse how gender has intersected with various dimensions of modernity, including: class and domesticity; labour; imperialism and race; citizenship and nationalism; sexuality and the body; ideas about crime; and forms of popular culture and mass media. Students will gain an understanding of how contemporary ideas about gender and sexuality are historically specific.