History 691X:
U.S. Women and Gender History
Fall 2006 , Monday 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Synopsis:
This graduate topics course spans women and gender history from the colonial era to the present. It prepares students for a research seminar and graduate exams in the field of women and gender history. The study of historiography on key questions in the field features recent scholarship combined with pathbreaking earlier writings. Although the role of gender and gender relations is critical to understanding both female and male experience, the emphasis of this course is on the way gender intersects with other major societal and cultural influence in shaping women’s lives. This, of course, includes gender relations in the context of how men are gendered. The aims of the course, then, are to deepen understanding of the array of and interconnections among time and place-specific influences that shape women’s consciousness and behavior; to compare and contrast women’s experience across the axes of social class, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality; to explore what we know with how we know it through our attention to a variety of kinds of historical sources and scholarly modes of presentation; and to grapple with some of the central debates within the field of women and gender history.
Course requirements include informed participation in discussion, three papers (each 7-10 pages), and one in-class oral presentation.
Syllabus: Not available
Course Website: Not available
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