JAN 9 MAIDS IN MEN’S CLOTHES: Joan of Arc and the Tradition of Transvestite SaintsCHARITY URBANSKI

Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin, Joan of Arc: Her Story (New York: Saint Martin’s Press, 1998)

Stephen J. David, “Crossed Texts, Crossed Sex: Intertextuality and Gender In Early Christian Legends of Holy Women Disguised as Men,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 10/1 (2001), pp. 1–36

Paul Szarmach, “St. Euphrosyne: Holy Transvestite,” in Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints’ Lives and Their Contexts (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), pp. 353–365

Martha Easton, “Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?” in The Four Modes of Seeing: Approaches to Medieval Imagery in Honor of Madeline Harrison Caviness (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009)

JAN 16 CATHERINE THE GREAT: Gendering Sovereignty in 18th-Century RussiaELENA CAMPBELL

Isabel De Madariaga, Catherine the Great: A Short History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)

Simon Dixon, Catherine the Great (Profiles in Power) (London: Routledge, 2001)

Catherine II, Empress of Russia, Translated by Markus Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom, The Memoirs of Catherine the Great (New York: Modern Library, 2005)

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RECOMMENDED READINGThe 2019 History Lecture Series speakers have each selected short lists of books and other media to enhance the lecture experience and inspire further exploration. Many of the books are available at University Book Store, where UWAA members enjoy a 10% discount.

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CHALLENGINGGender

2019 HISTORY LECTURE SERIES

JAN 23 SWITCHING GENDER: Love, Desire, and Ethical Debates in Mughal IndiaPURNIMA DHAVAN

BOOKS AND ARTICLES:Bullhe Shah, translated by Christopher Shackle, Sufi Lyrics, Murty Classical Library of India (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015)

Scott A. Kugle, Sufi and Saint’s Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality and Sacred Power in Islam (Greensboro: University of North Carolina, 2007)

Richard K. Wolff. “The Poetics of ‘Sufi’ Practice: Drumming, Dancing, and Complex Agency at Madho Lāl Husain (And Beyond).” American Ethnologist, Vol. 33, No. 2, May 2006: 246-268.

ONLINE RESOURCES: Interviews and PodcastsPartition Voices: Interview with Amrita Pritam, by Andrew Whitehead https://www.andrewwhitehead.net/partition-voices-amrita-pritam.html

BBC: Incarnations—India in 50 Lives, Amir Khusro: The Parrot of India, by Sunil Khilnani https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05vx1bs

ONLINE RESOURCES: MusicThe late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with a more traditional and popular rendition of Shah Hussain’s poetry: https://youtu.be/lb3s5w8hI1Q

Hadika Kiani delivers a contemporary folk version of 18th-Century poet Bulhe Shah’s “Kamli”: https://youtu.be/TEndDGGmXzU

A popular version of Bulhe Shah by Abida Parveen, a popular female Sufi performer: https://youtu.be/WymFza2ftwg

Rabbi Shergill performs 18th-Century Sufi music, interpreted through contemporary rock with “Bulla ki Janna Main Kaun”: https://youtu.be/pTxZy32Fv_0

JAN 30 WOMEN OF THE 1960S: Betty Friedan, Janis Joplin and Angela DavisWILLIAM RORABAUGH

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: Norton, 1963; 50th Anniversary Ed. 2013)

Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”:The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988)

Alice Echols, Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (London: Virago, 1999)

Monterey Pop Dir. D. A. Pennebaker, Leacock Pennebaker, Distributor, 1969. Film.

Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left (New York: Vintage, 1980)

Angela Davis, Angela Davis: An Autobiography (New York: International, 1974)

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