Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
This course aims to provide students with the analytical tools, concepts, issues, perspectives
and questions in the study of nationalism using gender as a category of analysis. It is designed
as a seminar course in cultural studies, sociology, and/or political science. The ways gender
informs our understandings of nationalism will be specifically discussed throughout the
course. How nationalist movements and discourses imagine, construct and invent national
identities in specific gendered terms over time and space will be examined, problematizing
the relationship between nationalism and gender. Nationalist politics, movements and
discourses, and the “women question”; their relation with femininity and masculinity ideals;
reproduction of the nation and women; gendering of citizenship and the political will be
discussed throughout the course. In order to facilitate our understanding of nationalisms and
their gendered manifestations, we will focus on different case studies covering a vast
geographical area with a specific emphasis on the Turkish case.
The course will consist of lectures intertwined with discussions. Lectures will be introductory,
and the students are expected to offer discussion of the assigned material in relation to these
introductions. Close and critical reading of the assigned texts before coming to each class is
utterly necessary.
The grading in this course will be as the following:
Class attendance and participation (%20)
Response papers (40%)
Take-home final exam (40%)