Gender, Sexuality, and Culture in the Modern Middle East

Catalog description

An introduction to women’s and gender studies in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Arabic literature and film. We will begin by laying critical foundations for discussing gender issues in the Middle East, with readings on Orientalism, the harem, and the veil. Other units include: pre-modern female literary personae, gender and revolution, women writing war, feminism and class, colonialism and culture.