History 252 - Women and Gender in Modern Europe, 1789–1918
Wom & Gen in Mod Eur,1789-1918
Fall
2022
01
4.00
Darcy C. Buerkle
TU TH 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Smith College
HST-252-01-202301
Seelye 211
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.