History 313 - SEM: PROBLEMS/E ASIAN HISTORY

Topics course. Gives students the opportunity to think about gender in a non-modern, non-Western context by focusing on women?s and gender histories of China, Japan and Korea from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. After reading several exemplary works of scholarship and translation, students conduct their own research and write up their findings in a seminar paper. By examining a period before modern conceptions of rights and feminism existed, the course encourages students to grapple with the complexity of the historical past.

Topic: Women and Gender in Early Modern East Asia. Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores