Native American Studies: NAS 42

NAS 42

Gender Issues in Native American Life (Identical to Women and Gender Studies 46)

06F, 07F: 11

We will address issues of gender in indigenous communities as it relates to culture, policy, history, and social life. Indigenous in the context of this class, we will focus on the diversity of Native people within/across settler-colonial nation-states. The project based assignments will tackle common misperceptions, the complexity of changing gender patterns, the methods Native communities develop to balance out gender inequities, and various organizing of Native women's activism. The aim of this class is to create an understanding of how gender issues are a vital component in the process of decolonization.

Open to all students. Dist: SOC. Class of 2008 and later; WCult: CI. Goeman.