UGC297U/ANT2330

Gender in Asia

Faculty
Prof. Rubie S. Watson

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, mainland 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. (CUHK Anthropology Majors and students who have taken ANT2330 cannot take this course to fulfill General Education requirements.)