GENDER AND HISTORY

Course Objectives: This course aims to familiarize students with the basic themes and questions in feminist historiography at introductory level. Drawing on a range of sources (including archival, visual, and fictional ones) and case studies, students will gain a deeper understanding of gender history and the 14 themes and questions within the field. Students will also acquire the necessary intellectual tools to develop historical perspective and critical thinking. 

Course Content: This course focuses on the main issues in gender history and feminist historiography with particular attention to inequalities and power relations in history writing. The course will reflect on the following questions: Why is gender a useful analytical category for history writing? How is the process of writing “history” gendered? What are the theoretical and methodological approaches introduced by feminist historiography? The course will discuss these questions emphasizing the relationship between histories and theories of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Throughout the course, we will examine the challenges that emerge from utilizing gender as an analytical category in history writing