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Seminar
WiSe 15/16: Gender in the Age of Empire, 1850-1950
Joseph Prestel
Comments
Over the last two decades, historians have drawn on gender as a lens for a number of insightful studies about the period of imperial expansion that began in the mid-nineteenth century. From debates surrounding a specific "gentlemanly" masculinity in the British Empire to the concern for a "pure" form of womanhood in West African anti-colonial movements, scholars have shown that the formation of male and female subjects could in various ways support as well as subvert imperial power structures. Based on this new scholarship, this class examines the specific insight that studies of gender open up in the research on Empires in global history. Readings will include theoretical approaches to the history of gender as well as case studies from Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa. At least one session of the seminar will be dedicated to working with primary sources from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. close
Suggested reading
Ann Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995); Philippa Levine, ed., Gender and Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); Wilson Jacob, Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011); Emanuelle Saada, Empire's Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2012). close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2015-10-14 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2015-10-21 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2015-10-28 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2015-11-04 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2015-11-11 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2015-11-18 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2015-11-25 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2015-12-02 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2015-12-09 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2015-12-16 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2016-01-06 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2016-01-13 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2016-01-20 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2016-01-27 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2016-02-03 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2016-02-10 14:00 - 16:00