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HIST 446 Gender, Sexuality, and Race in South Asia Units: 3.00
This course explores sex, gender, man, woman, as products of particular cultural and scientific contexts, drawing on South Asian material. Themes include sexuality in Hindu mythology, colonial masculinity, sex and the body in Gandhi's thought, the gendered underpinnings of imperial ideologies, transnational feminism and its post-colonial critics, and the expression of queer identities in South Asia.
Learning Hours: 144 (36 Seminar, 108 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a HIST Major or Joint Honours Plan and a minimum grade of C+ in 6.0 units from HIST 300-330.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate through oral presentations and written work their understanding of ethnicity, race, sexuality, and gender, as understood in South Asia over time.
- Gain critical understanding of colonialism, race and gender from a comparative perspective.
- Develop historiographical literacy by identifying and describing the content and stakes of conversations and debates among historians within the field.
- Demonstrate their mastery of the knowledge and skills involved in historical practice by conceptualizing and executing a significant piece of original research.
- Articulate in verbal and written form the contributions of divergent theoretical perspectives to the understanding of race and gender in society.