Spring 2024 Middle East GR8280 section 001

STDY GEN/SEXUALITY-ARAB WORLD

STDY GEN/SEXUALITY-ARAB W

Call Number 12947
Day & Time
Location
T 4:10pm-6:00pm
208 Knox Hall
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Joseph A Massad
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This course aims to familiarize graduate students with the different methods and approaches that US and European scholars have used to study gender and sexuality in other societies generally, and the way they study them in the context of the Arab World specifically. The course will also explore how Arab scholars have also studied their own societies. We will survey these different approaches, both theoretical and empirical, outlining their methodological difficulties and limitations. Readings will consist of theoretical elaborations of these difficulties and the methodological and empirical critiques that the field itself has generated in order to elaborate how gender and sexuality in the Arab World have been studied, or more accurately, not studied, and how many of these methodological pitfalls can be avoided.

Web Site Vergil
Department Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Enrollment 13 students (24 max) as of 9:05PM Thursday, December 5, 2024
Subject Middle East
Number GR8280
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Section key 20241MDES8280G001