GENDER AND EMPIRE

This course examines gender and sexuality as an important lens for understanding the social and political processes of empire, anti-colonialism, and the publics and politics of the present. Students will explore the relationship between ideological and material structures of power as these have produced categories of distinction, e.g., race, caste, class, religion, and sexuality in global contexts with specific focus on the importance of issues such as: debates about sexuality and identity; the formation of creole societies; indenture and plantation slavery; anticolonialism; war and violence, economic injustice.