HIST 213 - Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

3 SS
The course focuses on both the various roles women played and the ways in which “female-ness” was constructed in early modern Europe. In addition to exploring the lives of women from different strata of European society, we will consider how women exercised power and were the object of it, how political, legal, religious, and scientific discourses defined women, and how historical events like the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the French Revolution affected gender roles.

Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 40.
Ms. Abend

Next offered 2008-2009

Credits: 3 hours