Films from Southern Europe, Northern Africa, and the Middle East will be examined with an eye to the role of women in Mediterranean societies. The course will look at how gender, kinship, division of labour, religion, tradition, and sexuality impact...
This course examines the lives and times of London women over the past three centuries from a social history perspective. It includes studies of women being regarded as the ‘weaker vessel’; ‘domestic ideology’; the ‘business’ of marriage in...
Austrian literature over the centuries has been dominated by men – with few notable exceptions such as Hrosvit v. Gandersheim, Marie Frf. v. Ebner-Eschenbach, Paula v. Preradovic, Bertha v. Suttner. After WW II, there is an increase of female women...