FG247
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Women, Children and Men: Families in Historical Perspective
Course Subject Code
FG
Course Number
247
Course Long Title
Women, Children and Men: Families in Historical Perspective
Status
Active
Division
*
Department
Unit(s)
1
Schedule Type
Block Seminar
Instruction Mode
Traditional
Grade Modes
Letter Grades, S/CR/NC, Audit
Course Attributes
CLHP, CPS, EPG
Course Description
This course treats gender roles and family life throughout the European past, with comparative attention to families of other historical cultures and to relationships within non-human primate communities. It emphasizes the historical agency of women and children generally elided from traditional master narratives of Western Civilization, demonstrating how feminist and ethnohistorical approaches can reveal their experience. Course materials will include historiographical and anthropological literature as well as primary documents, literary works and visual sources.