Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: PERFORMING WOMEN AND SHIFTING PUBLICS IN SOUTH ASIA

Department: Asian Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course maps the relationship between gender and the public sphere in South Asia using autobiographies, fiction and cinema about women performers. It extends the idea of performance to mean sites such as art practices and protest performances by transgender communities, to understand debates around sexuality, censorship, pleasure, and violence.