| GEN&SEX 50A | GENDER & FEMINISM | SAMEH, C. | What is gender? Why does studying it matter? This course will explore how feminism as a political movement and as a set of critical perspectives has understood gender as a category of social analysis. We will examine how gender structures personal identities, families and kinship, citizenship, nationalism, work and leisure, sexual desires, language, economics, and global politics. We will consider how gender works in all these areas in conjunction with other aspects of identity and social structure including race, sexuality, class, ethnicity, and religion. |
| GEN&SEX 157 | QUEER GLOBAL SOUTH | SAMEH, C. | This course will consider queer subjectivities, identities, discourses, formations, and movements from the global South in both historical and contemporary perspectives. We will think critically about the ways in which queerness has been associated, at different times, with Western modernity on the one hand, and with non-Western “pre-modern” cultures on the other. We will explore the relationship of queer sexuality to colonialism, modernity, capitalism, religion, geo-politics, and transnational and regional movements. We will also examine the extent to which queer studies has challenged and/or reproduced a focus on the West. |