Cross-listed as HIST 390. Considers their issues and our issues together. Male students welcome. Cross-listed as ANTH 403 and HIST 403. Interdisciplinary readings from fiction, autobiography, history and anthropology.
Male students welcome.
Cross-listed as ANTH 404 and HIST 404. Uses novels, short stories, life histories, films, other primary materials and scholarly works to examine the lives of Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese women in the 20th century. Topics include the traditional role of women, women and work, reproductive issues, women and revolution, and male representations of women's experience. Contrasts women's experiences in various East Asian societies, and considers the relevance and usefulness of feminist ideas in the East Asian context. HIST codes 6, 8.