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21A.470J Gender and Representation of Asian Women (MIT)

This course explores stereotypes associated with Asian women in colonial, nationalist, state-authoritarian, and global/diasporic narratives about gender and power. Students will read ethnography, cultural studies, and history, and view films to examine the politics and circumstances that create and perpetuate the representation of Asian women as dragon ladies, lotus blossoms, despotic tyrants, desexualized servants, and docile subordinates. Students are introduced to the debates about Orientalism, gender, and power.

Keywords:: Ethnography, stereotypes, colonialism, gender, Gender Studies, representation, ocwc, Cultural Anthropology, oec, asian, diaspora, nationalism, power, Women's Studies, women, Asian Studies

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Humanities / Asian or Asian American Studies

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: August 6, 2014
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 10, 2022
Author:: Prof. Manduhai Buyandelger
Submitter:: The Open Education Consortium
Primary Audience:: College General Ed
Technical Format:: Website

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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States