Gender and Sexuality in the Premodern World

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This graduate seminar addresses the pressing need to study comparative histories of gender and sexuality in the premodern world from non-Western-centric perspectives. It accentuates the significance of studying gender and sexuality together, as well as the relevance of the non-Western premodern to our contemporary world. This course is not a world history survey but a focused discussion of select academic works that are particularly inspiring and pathbreaking in their approaches and methodologies. The selection of readings will depend on students’ interest and new scholarship of the time, but the initial selection will come from the attached bibliography.