HIS 540 Approaches to Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern European History

This course will interrogate the modern European past from the analytical perspectives of gender and sexuality. The main focus of the course will be on the cultural logics and contradictions of gender ideologies, how they shape and legitimated broader social changes, their conformities and contestations in public discourse and social practice, and on how assumptions about women's 'nature' and abilities were used to expand, as well as delimit, real women's (and men's) lives and actions.

Credits

3