History 259fm - Colloquium: Topics in African History-Femininities, Masculinities and Sexualities in Africa

Colq:T-Fem,Masc,Sex/Africa

Fall
2024
01
4.00
Jeffrey S. Ahlman

W 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM; M 3:05 PM - 4:20 PM

Smith College
HST-259fm-01-202501
Burton 101
jahlman@smith.edu
This course examines the political, social and economic role of women, gender and sexuality in African history, while paying particular attention to the ways in which a wide variety of Africans engaged, understood and negotiated the multiple meanings of femininity, masculinity and sexuality in the changing political and social landscapes associated with life in Africa. Key issues addressed in the course include marriage and respectability, colonial domesticity regimes, sex and religion. Additionally, students interrogate the diversity of methodological techniques scholars have employed in their attempts to write African gender history. Enrollment limited to 18.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.