History 252 - WOM & GEN IN MOD EUR,1789-1918
Fall
2017
01
4.00
Darcy Buerkle
MW 02:40-04:00
Smith College
10596-F17
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.