History 690STC - Approaches to Gender History

This graduate course offers an introduction to the field of gender history, from its origins in the 1970s to the present day. By approaching gender as a historically specific, dynamic, and socially constructed category that varies across time and space, this course will consider how societies throughout global history have imagined and contested masculinity, femininity, and sexual difference. In doing so, this course will survey the wide range of analytical frameworks and methods available to scholars of gender history.