Fall 2015 email: [email protected] Dr. Murdock Office phone: 598-1815 Spencer Hall 250 Office Hours: MWF 9am to 10am, 11am to 12noon; Mondays only 4-5pm and by appointment

WOMEN IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ANTH290 Course Description In this course, common misconceptions about gender and sexuality in the global south are challenged. We deconstruct the analytic category of “woman” and then apply that deconstruction to both masculinity and sexuality. Key lessons from this course are that gender and sexuality are socially constructed, and that women in the global south are agents involved in the reproduction and transformation of their own societies. Further, women in the global south are seen as living in the modern world, and not as representatives or victims of cultural "backwardness." Finally, this course challenges the notion that gender and sexuality are experienced the same everywhere. Through texts, films, and class discussions about women's agency in a modern world, students learn not to take for granted the meanings of gender or sexuality in different cultural contexts. Required Texts Brenner, Suzanne April. The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth and Modernity in Java. Princeton University Press. 1998. Deeb, Lara. Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon. Princeton University Press. 2006. Maggi, Wynne. Our Women are Free: Gender and Ethnicity in the Hindukush. University of Michigan Press. 2001. Wardlow, Holly. Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society. University of California Press. 2006. Coursepack [see bibliography at end of syllabus] Course Requirements (continued on next page) Participation (15%): This class is designed to allow students the opportunity to participate actively in the learning process. You will be expected to come to class with something to say about the reading such as a question, a passage you would like to talk about more fully, a connection you see between one reading and another, etc. Students missing more than 3 classes over the semester typically do not do well as they are unable to benefit from class lecture and discussion.

Course Requirements (cont'd) Reading Quizzes (25%). A set of pop quizzes will be given in class without notice to encourage the reading of all assigned course materials. The pop quizzes will count for 25% of your course grade; the lowest pop quiz score will be dropped. If you are late to class and the quiz is already underway, you may not take it, as this will delay the start of class. Please be sure to come to class ON TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Exams (60%). There will be a midterm and a final exam (worth 30% each), both in long answer format. Please follow the Honor Code and pledge your work for my class.

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COURSE SCHEDULE Wed- Aug 26 -- Introduction to the Course Fri - Aug 28 -- Readings: Yanagisako and Delaney, "Naturalizing Power"; Butler, "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire" pp 4-7 only Mon – Aug 31 -- Readings: Moore, "Bodies on the Move," and Kincaid, "Girl" Wed - Sep 2 -- Reading: Ortner, "The Problem of 'Women' as an Analytic Category" Fri - Sep 4 -- Reading: Etienne and Leacock, "Introduction" Mon - Sep 7 - Reading: Van Allen, "'Aba Riots' or Igbo 'Women's War'?" Wed - Sep 9 -- Reading: Mohanty, "Under Western Eyes" Fri - Sep 11 – Reading: Brenner, The Domestication of Desire, Intro and Chp 1 Mon - Sep 14 Reading: Brenner, The Domestication of Desire, Chapters 2 and 3 Wed - Sep 16 -- Reading: Brenner, The Domestication of Desire, Chp 4 Fri - Sep 18 – Reading: Brenner, The Domestication of Desire, Chps 5 and 6 Mon - Sep 21 – Reading: Brenner, The Domestication of Desire, Chp 7 Wed - Sep 23 – FILM: Transnational Tradeswomen

COURSE SCHEDULE, CONT'D

Fri - Sep 25 - Readings: Estioko Griffin and Griffin, "Woman the Hunter"; Hewlett, "The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father-Infant Bonding" Mon –Sep 28 – Goodale, "Gender, Sexuality and Marriage: A Kaulong Model of Nature and Culture" Wed – Sep 30 -- REVIEW FOR EXAM Fri - Oct 2 – EXAM DATE

FALL BREAK Wed - Oct 7 - Reading: Maggi, Our Women Are Free, Introduction and Chp 1 Fri - Oct 9 - Reading: Maggi, Our Women Are Free, Chps 2-3 Mon - Oct 12 - Reading: Maggi, Our Women Are Free, Chps 4-5 Wed -- Oct 14 - FILM: Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgistan Fri -- Oct 16 - Reading: Maggi, Our Women Are Free, Chps 6-end Mon - Oct 19 - Reading: Abu-Lughod, "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?" Wed - Oct 21 - Reading: Deeb, An Enchanted Modern, Introduction and Chp 1 Fri - Oct 23 - Reading: Deeb, An Enchanted Modern, Chp 4 Mon - Oct 26 - Reading: Deeb, An Enchanted Modern, Chp 5 Wed - Oct 28 - Reading: Deeb, An Enchanted Modern, Chps 6 and 7, plus pages 110115 of Chp 3 Fri – Oct 30 -- FILM: Unveiled Views Mon - Nov 2 – Reading: Tosh “Hegemonic Masculinity and the History of Gender”

COURSE SCHEDULE, CONT'D Wed - Nov 4 – Reading: Stoler, “The Education of Desire and the Repressive Hypothesis” Fri - Nov 6 – Reading: Wardlow, Wayward Women, Intro and Chp 1 Mon - Nov 9 – Reading: Wardlow, Wayward Women, Chp 2 Wed - Nov 11 -- Reading: Wardlow, Wayward Women, Chp 3 Fri - Nov 13 -- Reading: Wardlow, Wayward Women, Chps 4 and 5 Mon - Nov 16 -- Reading: Wardlow, Wayward Women, 6 to end Wed -- Nov 18 – American Anthropological Association Meetings – NO CLASS Fri -- Nov 20 – AAA MEETINGS – NO CLASS Mon - Nov 23 – Reading: Dudink, “Homosexuality, Race, and the Rhetoric of Nationalism” Wed - Nov 25 -- THANKSGIVING Fri - Nov 27 -- THANKSGIVING Mon – Nov 30 -- THANKSGIVING Wed - Dec 2 – FILM: Tales of the Waria Fri - Dec 4 – -- Reading: Blackwood, "Tombois in West Sumatra" Mon – Dec 7 -- Reading: Epple, "Coming to Terms with Navajo 'nadleehi'" Weds – Dec 9 REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM FINAL EXAM DATE: Monday, December 14th, 9am to 11am

Bibliography of Course Readings

Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2002. "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others," American Anthropologist 104(3): 783-790. Blackwood, Evelyn. 1998. "Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire," Cultural Anthropology 13(4): 491-521. Butler, Judith. 1990. "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire", in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Pp 4-7 only. London: Routledge. Dudink, Stefan P. 2011. “Homosexuality, Race and the Rhetoric of Nationalism,” History of the Present, Vol. 1(2): 259-264. Epple, Carolyn. 1998. "Coming to Terms with Navajo 'nadleehi': A Critique of the 'berdache,' 'gay,' 'alternate gender,' and 'two-spirit'", American Ethnologist, Vol. 25(2), 267-290. Estioko-Griffin, Agnes and P. Bion Griffin. 1997. "Woman the Hunter: The Agta," in Gender in Cross Cultural Perspective. Eds. C.B. Brettell and C.F. Sargent. Pp. 253-265. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. [Abridged with editor's permission from original version published in 1981 in Woman the Gatherer, ed. Frances Dahlberg, Pp. 121-140. New Haven: Yale University Press] Etienne, Mona and Eleanor Leacock. 1980. "Introduction," in Women and Colonization: Anthropological Perspectives. Eds. Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock. Pp. 1-24 New York: Praeger Publishers [A J.F. Bergin Publishers Book]. Goodale, Jane C. 1980. "Gender, Sexuality and Marriage: A Kaulong Model of Nature and Culture," in Nature, Culture and Gender. Eds. Carol P. MacCormack and Marilyn Strathern. Pp. 119-142. Cambridge University Press. Hewlett, Barry S. 1997. "The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father-Infant Bonding," in Gender in Cross Cultural Perspective. Eds. C.B. Brettell and C.F. Sargent. Pp. 42-56. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. [Adapted for this text by the author from original publication Intimate Fathers: The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care. 1991 University of Michigan Press] Kincaid, Jamaica. 1985[1978]. "Girl," in At the Bottom of the River. Vintage Press. Pp 3-5.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 1991. "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses," in Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Eds. C.T. Mohanty, A. Russo, and L. Torres. Pp. 51-80. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Moore, Henrietta L. 1994. "Bodies on the Move: Gender, Power and Material Culture," in A Passion for Difference. Pp. 71-85. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Ortner, Sherry B. 1996. "The Problem of 'Women' As an Analytic Category," in Making Gender; The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Pp. 116-138. Boston: Beacon Press. Stoler, Ann Laura. 1995. “The Education of Desire and the Repressive Hypothesis,” in Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. Duke University Press. Pp. 165-195. Tosh, John. 2004. “Hegemonic Masculinity and the History of Gender,” in Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History. Eds. Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and John Tosh. Manchester University Press, New York Palgrave USA distributor. Pp. 41-58. Van Allen, Judith. 1997. "Aba Riots" or Igbo "Women's War"? Ideology, Stratification and the Invisibility of Women," in Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Eds. C.B. Brettell and C.F. Sargent. Pp. 513-528. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. [Reprinted from original publication 1976 Women in Africa: Studies in Social and Economic Change, eds. Nancy J. Hafkin and Edna G. Bay. Stanford University Press] Yanagisako, Sylvia and Carol Delaney. 1995. "Naturalizing Power," in Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis. Eds. Sylvia Yanagisako and Carol Delaney. Pp. 1-22. London: Routledge.