HIST 192 Gender
The course explores gender as a malleable category of historical analysis that intersects fluidly with other categories such as race, class, and sexuality. Course materials interweave global historical studies from the 16th to the 20th centuries with theoretical work on themes including the following: gender as performance, gendered divisions of labor, gender and science studies, the politics of gender, as well as gender, space, and material culture. By continually historicizing the construction of masculinities, femininities, and gender-fluid identities, this course examines how societies over time have expressed, policed, invented, and reproduced gender as a category of human experience and a shaper of social relations of power. The geographic range of the course is oriented primarily toward the Atlantic World: North America, South America, the Caribbean, West and West Central Africa, and Europe.
This survey course is one of the History’s department’s gateway 190s-series that takes a transnational and thematic approach to key concepts in historical studies.