Sex and Secularism
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2019
Have gender equality and sexuality undergone global transformations under secularism? If so, how do we characterize those transformations? What or who has altered? What are the specific catalysts of change? This graduate-level course examines the comparative methods of anthropologists and historians who view…
Secularism
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2018
What is secularism as opposed to secularization, the secular and secularity? What distinguishes it from religious and “non-secular” politics, discourse and governance? How have secular truths become socially realized? How have secular forms of political authority been legitimated? Drawing on innovate ethnographies and social theory, this…
Global Feminisms: Feminist Movements in the Middle East and Beyond
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2018
How does feminist thought and activism circulate globally? Which values, ideologies and texual traditions inspire local feminist politics? Which local practices and geopolitical discourses shape regional feminisms? In what ways are local feminisms transnational or global? This course examines the variety of feminist movements in the Middle East…
Ethnography of Islam and Gender
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2017
This graduate-level course surveys theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the study of Islam and gender, focusing on work written in the last decade.
Bioethics, Sex and Society in Muslim Communities
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2016
How are ethical subjectivities formed during life-crisis events such as pregnancy, birth, illness and death? How do people draw on cultural, textual and material traditions to respond to the challenges of new technologies and biomedicine in questions related to the beginnings of life? Combining the ethnographic and historical study of bioethics…
Approaches and Paradigms in the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2016
How does one become a man or a woman? What does it mean to be or become --or to fail to be or become --a man or a woman? Which practices, ideas and institutions gender our bodies? How does one become a man or woman in different cultures? How does gender shape the human experience of belonging to a community? How do power relations inhere…