HST 374 - Women & Gender in Modern China

Min Units: 3
Max Units: 3
This class explores the transformation of rural and urban women over the course of China’s 20th century while paying particular attention to the experience of women in China’s revolutions. Rather than simply add women to traditional historical narratives of modern China, this course examines how gender was used to articulate difference, reinforce power structures, establish revolutionary goals and objectives, and transform Chinese culture and society. While considering the history of women and gender in modern China, students will engage with Chinese female authors who have written autobiographical texts, as well as short fiction, socialist propaganda, and political tracts. (U) Occasionally