FGSS 2267

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FGSS 2267
Women and Society in China

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course offers a broad understanding of the active and dynamic cultural, economic, and social, and political roles played by Chinese women. By challenging the dominant stereotype of the passive and victimized Chinese woman, this course aims to examine women's struggles, negotiations, and challenges of the normative discourse of femininity and domesticity in terms of various disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, history, and literature. Through a combination of reading original texts with secondary scholarship, this course will discuss the issues of Confucianism and patriarchal family, the female body and sexuality, education and self-expression, women's economic status and religious life, gender and the state, the modernization of women, etc.

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (GHB)
Distribution Category (CA-AS)
Course Subfield (SC)

Comments No prior knowledge of China necessary.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2267

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16764 FGSS 2267   LEC 001

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