Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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HIST 3320 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Middle East History
Middle East history from the rise of Islam to the contemporary period, with particular attention to changing practices and discourses regarding women, gender, and sexuality. A key topic of concern is the changing Islamic legal interpretations on seclusion, veiling, marriage, divorce, inheritance, and abortion. Also important will be the experience of free and enslaved women of ruling families and elite households. The course will conclude with the changing nature of gender identities, practices, and roles in the 19th-century transformations, colonial rule, nationalist and labor movements, literary genres, authoritarian state formation, various modes of economic development, political Islam, occupation, and war.
Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to discuss major historical themes and time periods in Middle Eastern history, and basic, general trends in Middle Eastern historiography.
- Students will be able to identify, assess, and evaluate critically a variety of primary sources pertaining to Middle Eastern history, interpretations of such sources, and broader historical interpretations based on these sources.
- Students will be familiar with the variety of women’s experiences and contributions to Middle Eastern history and significant scholarly debates concerning women’s status and roles in different Middle Eastern societies.
- Students will develop increased knowledge of different Middle Eastern cultural groups and their historical developments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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