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Modern European Women's History:
Section 01 Calendar

 
Week 1 Introduction: Theory and Women’s History
1/11 Introduction to Course
1/13 Bock/James, Chapter 1 and Simonton, Introduction
Week 2 18th-Century Lives
1/18 no class meeting.
1/20 Simonton, Chapters 2-4.
Week 3 The Enlightenment and Age of Revolution
2/25 Bridenthal et al, Chapter 9, and Bock/James, Chapter 7
2/27 Bridenthal et al, Chapter 10 [De Gouges]
Week 4 Women and Work in the Early Industrial Era
2/1 Simonton, Chapter 7 and Bell and Offen, pp. 199-208. 
Oral Report topics due.
2/3 Simonton, Chapters 5 and 8
Week 5 Victorian Feminism: Woman's Rights and Duties
2/8 Bridenthal et al, Chapter 12.  Provisional bibliographies due.
2/10 Bock/James, Chapter 4 and Abrams et al, Chapter 4
Week 6 The “Domestic Sphere” and Beyond
2/16 Abrams et al, Chapter 5 (Note the Tuesday meeting).
2/17 Review and exams handed out
Week 7 Midterm Examination
2/22 No meeting
2/24 Exams due.
Week 8 Women and Culture Assigned Reading:  Well of Loneliness 
3/1 Documentary: Paris was a Woman; Orlando 
3/3 film: Orlando 
 
Spring Break: March 8-13
Week 9 Socialism, "Modernism,” and the New Woman
3/15 Bridenthal et al, Chapters 13-14
3/17 First half Hall discussed. Read Abrams et al, Chapter 6
Week 10 World War I and the Russian Revolution
3/22 Second half Hall, discussion continued.  Read Abrams et al, Chapter 7
3/24 Bridenthal et al, Chapters 15-16
Week 11 The Female Industrial Economy
3/29 Simonton, Chapters 9-10
3/31 Simonton, Chapters 11-12
Week 12 Fascist Europe
4/5 Bridenthal et al, Chapter 17  Well papers due.
4/7 Bock/James, Chapter 5 and Abrams et al, Chapter 8 or 9
Week 13 Post-War Family and Politics
4/12 Bridenthal et al, Chapters 18-19 
4/14 Bridenthal et al, Chapter 20 and Abrams, Chapter 10
Week 14 Oral Reports and Review
4/19 Review and final exams passed out. 
4/21 Oral Reports.  All students must be prepared to present on this day.
Week 15 Course Conclusion
4/26 Continue Oral Reports
4/28 Finish Oral Reports 

Final Examinations due in Atrium 202 by Monday 5/3 at 9:30 a.m. 

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