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HIST 681

Mapping Gender, ca. 1790-1960

Can studying history inform and reshape our present-day assumptions about identity, gender, sexuality, and theology? In this in-depth historical study of nineteenth-century culture, we invite you to consider how previous generations understood masculinity and femininity, parenthood and gender. 

As a class we will consider how one culture understood masculinity and femininity as social and relational categories, as ideas, and as cultural constructs. Our aim is to explore how themes such as gender roles, motherhood, fatherhood, singleness, gender stereotyping, and authority were mapped in late-Georgian and Victorian church and society. Through a challenging and in-depth historical study of the period c. 1780–1900, this course seeks to shed fresh light on many of the issues that preoccupy us today. As we encounter a time period qualitatively different from our own, contemporary presuppositions will be re-assessed, challenged, and re-articulated. In this way the course deliberately seeks to foster critical acumen, imagination, and historical perspective.


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Credit Hours:
2 - 3
Audit Hours:
2
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Prerequisites:

It is recommended but not required that students have already completed HIST 501 and HIST 502.

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