RELIGIOUS STUDIES 347 - Gender and Globalization in the Muslim World

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Hobart William Smith Colleges

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This course explores the extent to which globalization has affected the identities of Muslim women and their gender constructs in the Muslim world. While globalization has provided Muslim women with the newly found freedom to explore choices outside their constructed traditional roles, it has to a different degree trapped women into the cultures of materialism, consumerism, and liberation. Among the questions addressed in this course are whether globalization is a blessing or a blight What has been the impact of globalization in the Muslim world Does it affect men and women differently Does globalization reinforce the inequality of men and women in the Muslim societies To what extent does globalization affect the gendered divisions of private and public, resources, sexual division of labor, male-female power and authority and the production of identity in the context of globalization How do feminists, womanists, and islamists restructure gender awareness, power relations and opportunities in the public space What kind of religious ir indigenous resistance challenges the impact of globalizations on gender issues in the Muslim world (Anwar, offered alternate years)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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