HIS 317 Women, Work and Family in Modern Europe

In this course we will interrogate European modernity through the critical lenses of gender and women's daily lives and experiences. We will explore the role of gender in both organizing and validating social power relations, defining national identities and taxonomies of difference, and the contradictions between ideology and social practice. Topics we will cover include: women's labor and the impacts of industrial capitalism on gender norms and ideology; women in reform and political movements; domesticity and the public/private binary; organized feminism and its forms of expression; socialism and feminism, women's militancy and war work, the cultural meanings of female sexuality, and sexual liberation theory. Fulfills writing-intensive requirement. Prerequisite: HIS 214, HIS 217, or HIS/POS 300.

Credits

4