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Course Info for ANTH - 241 - 01, Fall 2024
Class number: 2200 Title: Women in the Caribbean Department: Anthropology
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 29 Current enrollment: 20 Available seats: 9
Start date: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 End date: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: T: 6:30PM-9:00PM, SH - S201 Instructor(s): DiVietro, Susan
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences Requirement
Course Description:
This course explores the diverse lives of women of the Caribbean. We will begin with feminist theories of women and power and trace how those understandings have emerged and changed over time. We will use ethnographies to examine women’s lives in both historical and contemporary Caribbean settings, and explore major theoretical approaches in feminist and Caribbean anthropology. We will analyze how women’s experiences have been shaped by multiple forces, including slavery and emancipation, fertility and constructs of motherhood, gender and violence, race and identity, tourism and sex work, illness and poverty, globalization and labor.