Women/Gender Modern Middle Eas

Catalog description

This course examines women and the construction of gender in the modern Middle East and North Africa. In its historical approach, the course will first examine women in Islam and early Islamic societies, and will then study women and women’s movements in the wake of colonialism, nationalist movements, and modernization projects of the 19th and 20th centuries. To challenge stereotypes about Muslim women and men, the course will analyze the cultural, social, economic, and political structures and discourses that have shaped gender and identity in the modern Middle East and North Africa.