Anthropology 251 - WOMEN & MODERNITY IN EAST ASIA

This course explores the roles, representations and experiences of women in 20th-century China, Korea, Vietnam and Japan in the context of the modernization projects of these countries. Through ethnographic and historical readings, film and discussion this course examines how issues pertaining to women and gender relations have been highlighted in political, economic, and cultural institutions. The course compares the ways that Asian women have experienced these processes through three major topics: war and revolution, gendered aspects of work, and women in relation to the family. This course is co-sponsored by, and cross-listed in, the East Asian Studies Program.

Not open to first-years