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131-431 Gender and History: Issues in Theory and Historiography

Year 4 History.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Professor P Grimshaw, Dr K Darian-Smith.

Contact: A 2-hour seminar per week.

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

As a result of undertaking this subject students should be able to: understand some canonical approaches to the writing of history; be acquainted with critiques of history emerging from new critical theory; address the meaning attached by historians to the use of gender as an analytical category; apply such understanding to recent work in the history of women, gender, the family and sexuality.

Content:

The subject explores the challenge to some of the basic assumptions of the discipline of history which have emerged from new critical theory including feminism, and the ways in which historians are incorporating 'gender' as an analytical tool in history.

Assessment:

Written work amounting to no more than 6,000 words.

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