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Women have traditionally inhabited private space but have rarely been privileged with privacy. With difficulty have women enjoyed solitude, the experience of being unto oneself. Socialization, political pressures and women's own regard for relationships all have promoted the expression of sociability, being for others besides oneself. To gain a time and space for solitude has therefore involved women in fundamental questions about gender identity and the ethical values that gender helps def ine. This course seeks to understand how women have come to terms with the often conflicting values of sociability and solitude by examining the writings of women from the modern industrial era. During this period, the separation of home and workplace w as ratified by the ideology of the proper bourgeois woman: the woman whose confinement to domestic "privacy" made her an agent of socialization and whose movement between private and public made her a vehicle of transgression. How women responded differe ntly to this bourgeois ideal from within different classes and races, and different experiences of parental bonds, will receive special attention in this course about women intended for women and men.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA COL Grading Mode: Student Option
Prerequisites: NONE
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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