HIST 326 - Sex and Gender in European History

3 Credit(s)

This course examines the political, economic, social, and cultural developments that occurred in Europe since the Renaissance with a focus on gender, family, marriage, sex, and sexuality. The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with gender as an analytical category as distinguished from sex, make students conscious of the variability of gender, and knowledgeable of the forces that have acted upon gender and sexuality in the past. Students explore themes such as gender construction, norms and transgressions; marriage and the family; concepts of masculinity/femininity and respectability; paternity; sex, deviance, and sexual danger; regulation, repression, and liberation; and the relationship between the state and the private lives of individuals.
This course fulfills requirements for the GWS major and minor.