MELC 20080 - Women in Islamic Societies, Spring 2005
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Women in Islamic SocietiesProfessor Asma Afsaruddin Middle East Studies Course Structure: Two 75-minute classes per week |
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Course Description
This course serves as a broad survey of women's and gender issues within the contexts of multiple societies in the Islamic world. The first half of the semester will concentrate on the historical position of women in Islamic societies, defined by the normative values of Islam and by cultural traditions and norms that were sometimes at odds with religious prescriptions. We will discuss how the interpretations of these values in diverse circumstances and who gets to do the interpreting have had important repercussions for women's societal roles. The second half of the course will privilege women's voices in articulating their gendered identities and roles in a number of pre-modern and modern Islamic societies in different historical circumstances as expressed in memoirs, fiction, magazine articles, and public speeches. As part of the historical contextualization of such works, we will focus on how modern phenomena like Western colonialism, nationalist liberation movements, civil and other forms of war have fostered women's organized movements, and their socio-political empowerment in some cases and marginalization in others, with lasting implications for these developing societies.
Course Contents
MELC 20080 - Asma Afsaruddin , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - About the Professor , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Al-Shaykh Study Guide , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Syllabus , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Lectures , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - First Short Essay , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Calendar , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Badran Study Guide II , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Final Exam , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Second Short Essay , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Ahmed Study Guide , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Second Lecture , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Lecture on Veiling , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Introductory Lecture , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Prelude to Zahra: A History of Lebanon , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Gocek and Bolaghi Study Guide , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Midterm Review Questions , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Stowasser Study Guide , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Shaarawi Study Guide , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Brief History of Morocco , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Shaarawi Discussion Questions , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Oral Presentation Guidelines , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Hessini Discussion Questions , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Oral Presentation Schedule , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Peirce Study Guide , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Mernissi Study Guide , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Saadawi Study Guide , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Stowasser Discussion Questions , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Badran Study Guide I , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Abouzeid Discussion Questions , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Mernissi Article Discussion Questions , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Barlas Discussion Questions II , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Badr Study Guide , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Barlas Discussion Questions I , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Cooke Discussion Questions , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Iranian Mall , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Cole and Ahmed Discussion Questions , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - About the Authors , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Hijab Style , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Morocco Woman I , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Assigned Readings and Films , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - CHP , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Treaty of Fez , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Morocco Woman II , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Woman and Man Equal , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Adam and Eve II , Spring 2005
MELC 20080 - Adam and Eve I , Spring 2005
