WOMEN'S AND GENDER HISTORY
- Academic year
- 2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- STORIA DELLE DONNE E DI GENERE SP
- Course code
- FM0404 (AF:518172 AR:294258)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- M-STO/02
- Period
- 2nd Semester
- Course year
- 1
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Attendance and active participation in the training activity proposed by the class and individual study will enable students to: 1) acquire knowledge of the categories, theoretical issues, and main historiographical trends in women's history and gender history; 2) deepen their understanding of the theme "Love, Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe" through reading and discussion of historical essays; 3) address the course topic through direct analysis of historical sources; 4) present orally and discuss a case study; 5) prepare a written text in the form of an essay, critically comparing bibliography and analyzing a source.
Expected learning outcomes
Pre-requirements
Knowledge of the basic events of European History in the Early Modern and Modern Age, even if the student hasn’t passed yet the specific examinations.
Contents
After the introductory lessons, the first part of the course will approach methodological and historiographical questions through participative seminar activities (reading, discussions, presentations).
The second part of the course, entitled ‘Bodies and Gender in the Early Modern Age’ will focus on the history of gendered bodies in the early modern age, at the intersection of science, law, religion, and art. From a social history and cultural history perspective, topics such as: the construction of the masculine and feminine; sexuality; generation and procreation; women's illnesses; the ages of life; and ‘non-conforming’ bodies will be brought into focus.
Referral texts
- Joan W Scott, Genere, Politica, Storia, a cura di I. Fazio, Roma, Viella, 2013, pp. 1-130;
- Gianna Pomata, La storia delle donne: una questione di confine, in Il mondo contemporaneo. Gli strumenti della ricerca 2: Questioni di metodo. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1983.
- Laura Schettini, L'ideologia gender è pericolosa, Roma- Bari, Laterza, 2024.
2) One of the following handbooks:
- Merry E. Wiesner, Le donne nell’Europa moderna, 1500-1750. Torino, Einaudi, 2017
- Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia d'Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2001.
3) two of the following books:
- Francesca Arena, Trouble dans la maternité. Pour une histoire des folies puerpérales, XVIIIe-XXe siècles, Presses Universitaire de Provence, 2020.
- - Maya De Leo, Queer. Storia culturale della comunità LGBT+, Torino, Einaudi, 2021.
- Umberto Grassi, Vincenzo Lagioia, Gian Paolo Romagnani (eds.), Tribadi, sodomiti, invertite e invertiti, pederasti, femminelle, ermafroditi…. Per una storia dell’omosessualità, della bisessualità e delle trasgressioni di genere in Italia, Pisa, ETS 2017.
- Nadia M. Filippini, Tiziana Plebani, Anna Scattigno (ed.), Corpi e storia. Donne e uomini dal mondo antico all’età contemporanea, Roma, Viella 2002.
- Nadia M. Filippini, Generare, partorire, nascere. Una storia dall’antichità alla provetta, Roma, Viella, 2017.
-Thomas Laqueur, L’identità sessuale dai greci a Freud, Roma-Bari, Laterza 1990.
- Laura Schettini, Il gioco delle parti. Travestimenti e paure sociali tra Otto e Novecento, Le Monnier, Firenze 2011.
- Giulia Sissa, I generi e la storia, Bologna, il Mulino 2024.
- Sylvie Steinberg (ed.), Une Histoire des Sexualités, Paris, PUF, 2018.
Other readings will be specified during the course.
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