SOC354 GENDER & MODERNITY

In this course, we examine the relationship between gender and modernity by rethinking the modern. We will explore competing theories and scholarship on modernity and explore how modernity’s different formations—capitalism, colonialism, war, crisis, and fascism—are gendered. We begin by discussing the origins of modernity through the state, class structures, colonial conquest and investigate how these processes impacted or imbricated gender in various ways. Further, we examine how modernity is not flat but a contradictory process and thus study how revolutionary movements have sustained or redefined gender and patriarchy. Lastly, we will examine how the rise of authoritarian regimes and fascism are the recent manifestation of gendered states and structures.

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