Summer & Fall GNDR Courses

G205: I Fought the Law: Gender and Power

Summer 2014, MTWRF 10:20 am-12:30 pm, 3rd 4-week Session (July 7-Aug. 1)

Ballantine Hall 237

Section #11678 (3 Credits)

 

Instructor: Ariel Sincoff-Yedid  

 

Course Description:

Who has the resources and legitimacy to create and spread knowledge about gender and sexuality?  How do the processes of production and policing occur?  This course examines sources and expressions of power in a variety of contexts, including familial power, governmental and global power, religious power, social and institutional power, and within the feminist movement.  We’ll also think about how sexuality is integrated into concepts and expressions of gender throughout the course.  You'll conduct an original research project on how we learn about gender.  Students in Gender Studies, Political Science, Sociology, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Pre-Law may be particularly interested in this course.

 

For more information please email asincoff@indiana.edu.

 

 

G104: Gender, Islam, and Difference

Fall 2014, TR 4:00-5:15 pm, Ballantine Hall 015

Section #14691 (3 Credits)

 

Instructor: Ariel Sincoff-Yedid  

 

Course Description:

Given the rising prominence of questions and debates about gender and Islam in the US and around the world, the need for greater understanding of how Islam views gender and sexuality and shapes adherents' behaviors has also grown.  This course provides an interdisciplinary, topical introduction to Islam and gender through the lens of Gender Studies.  It will focus primarily on the Muslim world, including the Arab world, Africa, and Southeast Asia.  After an introduction to Islam as a religion and its specific texts concerning gender and sexuality, we will explore the following topics in greater detail: love and sex in Islam; Islam, the West, and modernity; and gender essentialism and Islamic feminisms.  We will also critically interrogate the study of religion, and Islam in particular, in the field of Gender Studies.  You will get to do research on a related topic of your choosing and will work on a multimedia project.

 

For more information please email asincoff@indiana.edu.