2012-2013 Academic Catalog

May 05, 2024

2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 229 - Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion

Examine the history of European women up to 1800. Topics will include premodern ideas about women and gender; women’s role in and relationship to religion; women’s work; women’s position within the household; comparisons between rural and urban women, and among elite, middle-class and peasant women; the effect of marital status on single, married and widowed women; the effects of major historical changes such as the Reformation and the rise of capitalism on women; and the emergence of movements for women’s rights.