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FA 2010
Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies
AAPTIS 495 - Gender and Sexuality in Pre-Modern Islam
Section 001

Credits: 3
Other: WorldLit
Waitlist Capacity: unlimited
Advisory Prerequisites: Students should preferably have had one course in Islamic Studies.
Other Course Info: Taught in English.
Repeatability: May not be repeated for credit.
Cross-Listed Classes:
HISTORY 429 - Gender Islam, Section 001
RELIGION 496 - Gender Islam, Section 001
WOMENSTD 471 - Gender Islam, Section 001
Primary Instructor: Babayan,Kathryn

 

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Explores Muslim constructions of gender and sexuality in the pre-modern era (600-1700 CE). It integrates issues of sexuality and gender, bringing to bear on each other the ways in which masculinity and femininity were intimately constructed within the project of Islam.


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ISBN: 9780520242623 Women with mustaches and men without beards : gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity, Author: Najmabadi, Afsaneh, 1946-, Publisher: University of California Press 2005
Required

ISBN: 9780195084801 Women in the Qur'an, traditions, and interpretation, Author: Stowasser, Barbara Freyer, 1935-, Publisher: Oxford University Press 1994
Required

ISBN: 9780201523218 The veil and the male elite : a feminist interpretation of women's rights in Islam, Author: Mernissi, Fatima., Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co 1991
Required

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