2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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WGSS 4006 - Women’s Voices

3 hours
The course will examine the lives of extraordinary European women whose life, talents, and commitment to their cause redefined gender roles in a patriarchal society. The course will analyze the key role of women in disseminating the progressive ideas about human rights and equality throughout the early modern and modern periods and will pay a particular attention to the role of women in the Enlightenment, the French and Russian Revolutions, the Resistance against the Nazis, anti-colonial movements, and post-1945 events. The course will also explore the legacy of the 1960s as the beginning of the secong wave of feminism and its refocused attention on sexuality, marriage, and family. Students will learn about the writings and legacies of Olympe de Gouges, Madame de Stael, George Stan, Simone de Beauvoir, Alexandra Kollontay, Galina Starovoitova, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emmeline Pankhurst, Vera Brittain, and other social activists, writers, and scholars. A changing perception of masculinity will also be addressed.



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