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May 21, 2024
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H389 Gender in East Asia3 credit(s)
This course aims to explore the gender issues in East Asia such as masculinity and femininity through history, especially with modern transformation. It engages broader theoretical approaches to gender and its relationships to family, the state, modernity, revolution, and nation In a variety of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean contexts focusing on modern transformation. Students will be introduced to scholarly discussion and popular cultural production such as films through reading, analysis, and writing. Students will analyze and interpret these sources and ask how they illuminate major historical themes such as national identity, external relations, and political and social conflict in the context of gender and womanhood. Thus, this course asks how gender can be a useful lens for understanding East Asia as a dynamic, interconnected region in transnational and cross-cultural dialogues.
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