EUH 4610
Women in European Society: A European History Course

 

Dr. Carole Elizabeth Adams
 

ucfadams@earthlink.net
 

HFA 534 E
 

Office Hours Online via Chat by request and before assignments due

 

About This Course

This course examines the changing situation of women in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century. It explores their public worlds: work, intellectual and religious life, and involvement in culture and politics; and their private world of home and family. The course also looks at changing views of what it means to be male and female, masculine and feminine. Finally, the course deals with gender relations: the status of women in relation to men and questions of power, privilege, and disadvantage.

Note:  This is a highly structured course, with weekly online and visual assignments.  If you are not able, or not prepared, to undertake course work regularly each week, DO NOT take this course. 

Textbook

The textbook is available for purchase in the Bookstore, or you might try an online textbook store.

·         Boxer, Marilyn J., and Jean Quataert, eds., Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present, 2nd edit. (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Note: Many copies of this textbook, new and used, are available online from various book and textbook sellers. Make sure that you purchase the 2nd edition only.

  There will also be a number of readings, most of them images and primary sources, to be accessed from online.

 


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