ADHS3002 · Advancing Studies

Women and Gender in World History

ADV

This course covers the major events in the history of the modern world (roughly 1450-1990) through the lens of gender in order to discover the way gender shapes political, intellectual, religious, economic, and social developments; how it intersects with race, class, sexuality, and relations of power; how it is differently understood and employed in various cultural and historical contexts; and how contact between peoples and their cultural and political systems changes understanding of gender roles. It will look at topics such as the development of the family, female rulership, religion and gender, gender in colonial and imperial contexts, gender and slavery, masculinity in nationalism and war, and changing ideas of gender in the twentieth century. Students will be asked to work with primary source material to craft historical arguments.