Making Gender: Sex and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course examines the diverse and fascinating ways western cultures have shaped what it meant to be a woman or a man. Beginning in the time of the Roman Empire and continuing to the age of the French Revolution, the course examines such topics as eunuchs, fasting saints, female ‘popes’, changing notions of the physical differences between the sexes, and early struggles for women’s rights. CROSSLISTED: HIST 2614.03 FORMATS: Lecture | Tutorial