History | Women, Men, and Soceity in Modern Europe J400 | 3004 |
Bucur-Deckard Above section open to majors only Above section
open to undergraduates only Above section COAS intensive writing
section and also requires registration in COAS W333 Above
section meets with GNDR G402 This course examines the history of
Europe since the French Revolution beyond the grand narrative of
state building and progress. We will focus instead on the
equally significant competing stories of how relations in the
family, the wars between the sexes, childhood and sexuality have
changed over the last two centuries. We will discuss not only
the influence of political ideas, economic policies and treaties
on facets of modern European society, but also the impact of
changes in gender relations and identities on political and
economic developments. This course will show how private matters
have played an important role in public life. We will not
attempt an overarching overview of the entire period 1789-2002,
but rather a series of d