Reproductive Politics and the Family in Africa
HIST 302
Fall 2019
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 303 |
| Certificates: African Studies Minor |
| Course Cluster: African Studies, African Studies Minor |
This course will introduce students to broad discourses and issues related to reproduction and the family in modern Africa. We will study maternal health and technologies of reproduction, but for us reproduction will be an object of historical inquiry. One of the driving questions for this course will be how reproduction has been given meaning socially. How have African societies understood abortion, infanticide, or other medical means of controlling fertility and childbirth? What has been the relationship between the family and the state? We will also examine ideas about sexuality and love, changing notions of parenthood, and what constitutes an ideal family. Finally, we will interrogate how these ideas influenced political practices and ideologies and, in turn, changed conceptions of motherhood, fatherhood, and the family. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AFST-MN)(FGSS)(HIST-MN)(HIST)(HRAD-MN)(STS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Boddy, CIVILIZING WOMEN: BRITISH CRUSADES IN COLONIAL SUDAN (2007)
Cooper, COUNTLESS BLESSINGS: A HISTORY OF CHILDBIRTH AND REPRODUCTION IN THE SAHEL (2019)
Selections from Ittmann et al., THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF EMPIRE (2010)
Kaler, RUNNING AFTER PILLS: POLITICS, GENDER, AND CONTRACEPTION IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE (2003)
Jassey and Nyanzi, "HOW TO BE A 'PROPER' WOMAN IN THE TIME OF AIDS" (2007)
Tappan, THE RIDDLE OF MALNUTRITION: THE LONG ARC OF BIOMEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN UGANDA (2017)
Additional Readings TBA
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Examinations and Assignments:
Short Paper; Group Presentation; Final Paper; Regular Reflection Journal Entries |
| Instructor(s): Twagira,Laura Ann Times: ...W... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: RSCSEM; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 5 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 5 | FR: 0 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 2 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 1 |
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