2019 - 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0621-1165-01 | Women, Men and Modernity: the History of Gender in the West | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Over the last decades gender- history has become central to our study of history and the humanities. It focuses not only on the lives and experiences of women and men but mainly on how femininity and masculinity took shape, how differences between women and men were defined and how gender shaped their experiences and daily lives in the past, politics and the law. Gender equips us with a set of tools and terms and with possibilities to understand, study and write history anew. The course introduces a panorama of European and North American history and crossroads in them between 1700 and the presen,t from the perspective of gender. We shall consider: the European monarchies and the royal courts in the 18th century; gender in Enlightenment political thought; gender, fashion and the birth of modern consumption; women's and men's work in the Industrial Revolution; gender in the French and American Revolutions; gender and western law systems; the history of sexuality and gay history; gender and nationalism; gender and the two world wars; gender, race and empire, and gender in the age of globalization.
The course is designed for students of history, the general studies program, gender studies, Anglo-American studies and French studies, art history and the social studies,