PO 351 - Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Africa

Min Units: 3
Max Units: 3
This course will examine the varied ways in which gender and sexuality have been constructed and politicized across the African continent. We will collectively engage with a variety of texts – essays, films, books, and scholarly journal articles – that address African understandings and expressions of gender and sexuality, the role of gender and sexuality in African politics, and Africans’ individual and collective mobilizations toward liberation and against gender- and sexuality-based oppression. Although the course will focus on African gender/sexuality politics, we also will consider the relationship between African and Western gender/sexuality discourses and movements. (U) Occasionally
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore status, GHS 206 or PO 350