GWS 346AVT: Gender Family in East Asia

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Prerequisite(s): None Crosslisting: ANT 330M Students in this course critically examine ideas and practices related to gender, sexuality, and family in East Asia. Topics include the cultural construction of femininity, masculinity, and queer identities; changing intimacy and family configurations; the gendered effects of economic systems and globalization; and gender and sexual politics and the state. Drawing on the anthropology of gender and kinship, students in this class engage with course readings and lectures highlighting the historical and transnational contexts that shape gender and family practices in the East Asian region.