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Academic Year 2003/2004
Gender and Society in Modern Europe, 1789 - Present
HIST 207 SP
This course explores the gendered experiences of women and men, representations of those experiences, and the implications of gender difference in Europe from the French Revolution to the present. Special emphasis is
paid
to societal discussions of "woman" and her "place" as well as legal, economic, and social changes in European women's lives. Topics include the construction of public and private spheres; the family; sexuality;
masculinity;
work; industrialism and urbanization; the role of the state; imperialism; consumption; feminisms; the two world wars; fascism; the Cold War; the "sexual revolution"; and the New Europe.
MAJOR READINGS
Bonnie Smith, CHANGING LIVES: WOMEN IN EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1700 (Lexington, MA: D.C. Health, 1989).
Darline Gay Levy, Harriet Branson Applewhite, Mary Durham Johnson, eds., WOMEN IN REVOLUTIONARY PARIS, 1789-1795
(Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1980).
Susan Grogg Bell and Karen M. Offen, eds., WOMEN, THE FAMILY, AND FREEDOM: THE DEBATE IN DOCUMENTS (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983), Volume 2 (1880-1950).
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Midterm and final examinations. Two papers, class participation.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Tucker,Jennifer G
- Times: .M.W... 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: PAC125
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 25)
- SR. major: 5 Jr. major: 4
- SR. non-major: 4 Jr. non-major: 4 SO: 4 FR: 4
Special Attributes:
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2004
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