AMST 4264

AMST 4264

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

This seminar explores the intertwined histories of sex, sexuality, and gender at the intersection of major themes in American transnational and global history: race, labour, empire, and the state. What would a queer history of American foreign relations look like? How has the legacy of sexual violence in plantation slavery underwritten the systems – such as private property, police power, white supremacy, and carcerality -- that structure modern American society and its international entanglements? How can a focus on gender help us to better understand the contemporary challenges of globalisation and the Anthropocene? Uncovering the pasts of the most marginalised historical actors – enslaved women, rape victims, trans and queer people – requires innovative methodologies and new relationships to the archive. In this seminar, then, we will also think about how we do gender history, and develop tools for reading, writing and researching that take us beyond the boundaries of the written record and into the realm of the speculative, the spectral, and the imaginary.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (HA-AS, HST-AS)

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Syllabi:
  • 18359 AMST 4264   SEM 101

    • R Sibley Hall 211
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Lawlor, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18360 AMST 4264   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Lawlor, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies