Summer 2013 -
Graduate Course Description
Discipline and Number
5:30 PM - 10:00 PM
|Women in Modern European Society
DESCRIPTION OF COURSE:
This course will examine the varied historical experiences of women in European societies between approximately 1750 and 1985. Beginning with the transition to modernity, we will attempt to construct an understanding of the lives of women of different eras, different nations, and different social classes.
We will consider the multiple relations of women to the family, work, and politics. Our aim will be to identify both how modern European societies have defined the "proper" role of women and how women have collectively and individually adapted, challenged, and transformed such definitions.
Jane Austen, Lady Susan
Melville House 978-1935554356 THIS EDITION ONLY
Alexandra Kollontai, Love of Worker Bees
Academy Press 978-0897330015
Françoise Sagan, A Certain Smile
Univ. of Chicago 978-0226733470
Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
Plus multiple electronic texts
Tentative: Class attendance and participation; informal writing; reading journal; final paper.