Princeton University is offering a new course next spring that will examine the intersection of gender studies and “genocide” in Gaza.
The class, titled “Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide,” is listed under both the Ivy League school’s anthropology and gender and sexuality studies programs.
“This seminar explores genocide through the analytic of gender, with a central focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” the course description on the school’s website says. “Drawing on decolonial, Indigenous, and feminist thought, we examine how genocidal projects target reproductive life, sexual and familial structures, and community survival.”
According to the description, students will study “reproductive justice frameworks, survivor testimony, and Palestinian feminist critiques of colonial violence,” while comparing the situation in Gaza to “the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and genocide against Black and Indigenous populations.”
The 200-level course will also feature engagement with “leading feminist scholars.” It will be taught by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, an Israeli-born visiting scholar who retired from Hebrew University of Jerusalem last year.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian has been an outspoken critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza and has faced backlash within Israel. Princeton describes her as a “feminist whose scholarship on the settler colonial state’s brutality, unchilding, securitized and sacralized politics, state crime, law and society, and global feminist politics, challenges epistemic violence.”
