WOMEN in AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST

Iranian police women in training (2004)

"Used Condoms" by Cheri Samba (1990) Kinshasa, DRC

Fante Girls, Ghana (2002)

Catalogue Course Description: This course examines the social conditions and lived experiences of women in Africa and the Near East, contrasting the pre-colonial, colonial, and "post" colonial eras.  (LA, HO2, ICD, CW)
Textbooks:

1.Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine. African Women: A Modern History. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. 

2. Sabbagh, Suha. Arab Women: Between Defiance & Restraint. NY: Olive Branch Press, 1996.

3. Mernissi, Fatima. Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood. NY: Doubleday, 1995.

4. CHOOSE ONE NOVEL, either...Ama Ata Aidoo. No Sweetness Here. Longman, 1976.   OR  Sindiwe Magona. Push-Push & Other Stories.  Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.

5. (P) PACKET of READINGS> Handed out in class.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

 

Syllabus

Girl & baby camel, Tunisia (1974)