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Sucheta Mazumdar, a prominent scholar of Asian and Asian American history, will be speaking on "Sex Gender Systems in Transition," on Tuesday, October 12th, at 4 P.M. at Frost Lounge at Northeastern University. Sucheta Mazumdar is a Professor of History at Duke University. She is also a Visiting Professor of History at Harvard University this year and will be teaching a fall course on Chinese History.
Dr. Muzamdar is the author of "Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology, and the World Market", published my Harvard University in 1998. Currently Dr. Mazumdar is working on the book "Political Geographies of Location and Relocation: Essays in Asian and Asian American Studies."
This presentation will introduce some of the primary theoretical considerations that underlie Mazummdar's efforts to write a women-centered global history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This talk will examine the impact of global migration on gender relations in two areas: Guandung, China and Punjab, India.
For further information, contact Lihua Wang at the address and phone below:
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