History 252 - WOM & GEN IN MOD EUR,1789-1918
Fall
2012
01
4.00
Darcy Buerkle
TTh 01:00-02:20
Smith College
15123-F12
SEELYE 110
dbuerkle@smith.edu
A survey of European women's experiences and constructions of gender from the French Revolution through World War I, focusing on Western Europe. Gendered relationships to work, family, politics, society, religion, and the body, as well as shifting conceptions of femininity and masculinity, as revealed in novels, films, treatises, letters, paintings, plays, and various secondary sources.