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4.00 Credits
Draws on the experiences of life and thought of caste subalterns to explore the challenges to caste exploitation and inequality. - A. Rao Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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Explores the intersections between imagining and materiality in Bombay/Mumbai from its colonial beginnings to the present. Housing, slums, neighborhoods, streets, public culture, contestation, and riots are examined through film, architecture, fiction, history and theory. It is an introduction to the city; and to the imaginative enterprise in history. - A. Rao Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. 4 points
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The deceptively small subject of footbinding provides a window into the larger family dynamics and sexual politics in Chinese history and society. Explores the multiple representations of footbinding in European travelogues, ethnographic interviews, Chinese erotic novels and prints, and the polemics of modern and feminist critiques. - D. Ko Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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Explores migration as a gendered process and what factors account for migratory differences by gender across place and time; including labor markets, education demographic and family structure, gender ideologies, religion, government regulations and legal status, and intrinsic aspects of the migratory flow itself. - J. Moya Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. Sophomore Standing. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 4 points
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Explores the intellectual, social and cultural grounds for the establishment and transmission of feminist traditions in China before the 19th century. Topics include pre-modern Chinese views of the body, self, gender, and sex, among others. Our goal is to rethink such cherished concepts as voice, agency, freedom, and the choice that have shaped the modern feminist movement. - D. Ko Prerequisites: Background in Women's Studies and/or Chinese Studies helpful, but not necessary. Sophomore standing. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Investigates the cultural, material and technological conditions that facilitated the development of "fashion systems" in early modern Europe, Japan and contemporary Asian diasporic communities. In the global framework, "fashion" serves as a window into the politics of self-presentation, community formation, structure of desires, and struggles over representation. - D. Ko Prerequisites: At least one course in a Non-U.S. Area in History, Literature, Anthropology, Film Studies or Art History. Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). 4 points
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Collision of ideas in two of the following three contexts: "Rousseau, Burke and Revolution in France, 1791;" "The Struggle for Palestine: The British, Zionists, and Palestinians in the 1930s," or "India on the Eve of Independence, 1945". - M. Carnes Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20. Preregistration required. Reacting I, a First-Year seminar, is recommended. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Not offered 2008-09. Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
A writing-intensive introduction to modern historical theories and methods. Emphasis on the critical reading of a wide range of primary and secondary historical sources. Recommended for, but not limited to, new history majors. - J. Kaye 4 points
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4.00 Credits
From Indian Ocean worlds of the seventeenth century, to Atlantic world slavery, to the establishment of colonies in Asia and Africa during the nineteenth century, colonization was critical to the development of metropolitan ideas regarding politics and personhood. This seminar will examine these histories, along with emerging constructions of race and gender, as precursors to debates about human rights and humanitarianism in the twentieth century. - A. Rao Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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