Academic Catalog

MES516 GENDER IN MIDDLE EAST

Course Code: 8320516
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Middle East Studies
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

The construction and experience of gender and sexuality in the Middle East. The transformation of gender roles as a result of the encounter with modernity. The impacts of the modernisation upon femininty and masculinity within the framework of politics, economy-nation-state, religion and cultural studies.Islamist mobilisation, family, sexuality, neoliberalism and womens labour.