This course examines issues, theories, and praxis significant for researching, writing, and understanding of women's and gendered histories, as well as histories of sexualities, in varied global contexts. The course focuses on questions of women's agency and subjectivity in history, and explores complex questions of gendered representations, sexualities, and their historical and contemporary meanings, including gendered self-representations through relevant examples from European and South Asian histories (and additionally from American, South Korean and the Middle Eastern pasts ) the course delineates the social and cultural contexts of the construction of gendered bodies and subjects.