Concentration Track 3. History of Women and Gender

In studying the history of women and gender, students examine the different roles women and men play in society and how these roles change over time.  How are men’s and women’s life experiences different in a given historical period?  How are society’s prescriptions for women and men different?  In the History of Women and Gender concentration, students focus in on themes that help us to understand the role of gender in history, including evolving ideas about what constitutes femininity and masculinity, women’s negotiation of family and work, and feminist ideas and activism.  This concentration offers students the opportunity to examine history from the perspective of women and to understand how ideas about gender have shaped men’s and women’s lives.  In addition to reading scholarly works, students learn to analyze and develop their own historical arguments about a wide variety of primary sources.

Women and Gender Studies 111 Women, History and Culture. Counts as a History course for majors.

HST 274 Women in Nineteenth-Century Europe

HST 275 Women in Twentieth-Century Europe

HST 370 Workers in America

HST 371 U.S. Women’s History: Colonial to 1865

HST 372 U.S. Women’s History: 1865 to Present

HST 410 Class and Social Control in Europe, 1830-1914

HST 494 Politics and Protest