This seminar explores how scholarship in the history of gender and sexuality articulates with studies of empire, colonialism, and anti-colonial nationalism. Focusing in particular on the regions of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia the seminar is centrally interested in the convergences between gendered identities, the reconfiguration of sex and the family, and religious and cultural formations as they took shape during the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. Furthermore, the seminar will investigate how those experiences have structured the politics and histories of feminisms in these regions. 4 pts.