HIST 392 | Gender in Colonial Africa

How did colonialism shape ideas of gender for both Africans and Europeans? How did concerns about gender shape colonial policies and Africans' responses to those policies? How did the gendered nature of work shift after colonization? How could the performance of gender both uphold and subvert colonial power? Students will approach these questions through a variety of analytical lenses, and work collaboratively to explore different kinds of historical evidence around questions of gender.