GEE Courses offered by the Anthropology Department
ANT
2330/UGC 297U Gender in Asia 性別在亞洲
Lecturer: Prof. Maria Tam 譚少薇 (siumitam@cuhk.edu.hk)
Language: Cantonese and English
Office: NAH 303; Tel.: 2609-7676
Course Unit: 3
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a man works as traffic police in Chengdu, China (left), and a
woman sews at home in Kuching, Malaysia (right).
Gender studies examines the cultural concepts that form the basis
of a gendered division of labor. |
Course Description
This course focuses on gender in the Asian region. A comparative approach
will be taken to reflect diversity and resemblance, continuity and discontinuity,
and historical and contemporary influences on gender within countries
in the Asian region. Societies studied may vary from year to year, and
may include Hong Kong, China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines,
Taiwan, and Chinese across societies. Gender issues and conditions will
be examined within different contexts covering such areas as language,
class, work, family and kinship, health, sexuality, education, religion,
development, and politics.
本課程探討性別在亞洲地區內的異同、文化持續與斷裂，以及歷史上與當代的影響。每年研討的對象或有不同，包括香港、中國、印度、日本、韓國、菲律賓，台灣等地區，以及跨國家的華人文化。有關性別的議題包括語言、階級、工作、家庭與親族、健康、性、教育、宗教、發展和政治等。
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Work is an important area of study in
understanding concepts of gender. Here male laborers are working
on the beach in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, Guangdong.
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Members of any given society learn how
to become proper women and men through education and socialization.
Here Zhuang children attend class in Yaoji, Sichuan.
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