Spring Courses 2010

Publication Date: Oct 8, 2009

Hist 4865 Gender, Race, and Empire in Asia

This course will focus on the ways that ideas about race and gender
shaped and were shaped by colonialism, imperialism, and anti-colonial
nationalism in Asia. Examining both Asian and European imperialist
enterprises from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, we will read
works on the Chinese Qing Empire, British India, Dutch Indonesia, the
Japanese empire, and the US colony of the Philippines. It explores a
variety of topics including the control and construction of sex and
interracial intimate relations of all sort by colonial regimes; the
symbolic significance and manipulation of ideas of masculinity and
femininity in colonial settings; the implications of colonial regimes
for gender order and the lives and status of women and men; the role of
medical discourses in the development of ideas about gender and race in
colonial settings; and the uses of gender in nationalist discourse.