ANTH 2255 - Gender, Liberalism, and Postcolonial Theory

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Brown University

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What makes gender useful to think with? What work is it charged with doing--in the "real" world and in scholarship? What is the explanatory and analytical potential of a category that has been appropriated to divergent ends? Drawing on multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, this course operates at two registers throughout: it offers students a productive set of analytical tools for theorizing gender and sexuality in culture and society; and it constructs a genealogy of anthropological analysis of gender and sexuality from a postcolonial perspective, exploring how ethnography and postcolonial theory have challenged liberal feminism. Open to seniors and graduate students. S/NC.

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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