WMST W4300 - Advanced Topics In Women's and Gender Studies

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Columbia University in the City of New York

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Description:

This seminar examines the entanglements between discourses of feminism and modernity in China. In the Post-Mao or Reform period in the PRC (1979-present), Chinese scholars and activists have been engaging in vigorous debates about the roots of female oppression, the nature of femininity, the definitions of "woman" and "human," the proper relationship between the state and feminism, as well as the role of "the West" in "Chinese" articulations.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.columbia.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 854-1754

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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