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This course explores stereotypes associated with Asian women in colonial, nationalist, state-authoritarian, and global/diasporic narratives about gender and power. Students will read ethnography, cultural studies, and history, and view films to examine the politics and circumstances that create and perpetuate the representation of Asian women as dragon ladies, lotus blossoms, despotic tyrants, desexualized servants, and docile subordinates. Students are introduced to the debates about Orientalism, gender, and power.
- Subject:
- Creative and Applied Arts
- Gender Studies
- Language, Philosophy, and Culture
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
- World Cultures
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Provider:
- MIT
- Provider Set:
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Author:
- Buyandelger, Manduhai
- Date Added:
- 01/01/2011