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Modern European Women's History:
Section 01 Calendar


Week 1Introduction: Theory and Women’s History
9/1No Meeting
9/3Introduction to Course


Week 218th-Century Lives
9/8Bell and Offen, pp. 1-23. General Introduction and Introduction to Part I.
9/10Bell and Offen, pp. 24-36.


Week 3The Age of Revolution: Women in Rebellion and Post-Revolutionary Civil Society
9/15 Fraisse and Perrot, pp. 1-47.
9/17 Fraisse and Perrot, pp. 48-113 and Bell and Offen, pp. 37-41.


Week 4Women and Work in the Early Industrial Era
9/22Bell and Offen, pp. 199-208.
9/24Fraisse and Perrot, pp. 115-144 and 369-426.


Week 5Images of Victorian Women
9/29Fraisse and Perrot, pp. 166-227 and 306-318.
10/1Bell and Offen, pp. 143-158.


Week 6The “Domestic Sphere” and Beyond
10/6Reserve Reading: Smith, Ch. 5, pp. 181-200.
10/8Bell and Offen, pp. 367-375 and 391-399.


Week 7Midterm Examination
10/13Review
10/15Exam


Week 8The Fight for Women’s Suffrage
10/20 Bell and Offen, pp. 399-408.
10/22 Bell and Offen, pp. 482-517.


Week 9Nationalism, "Modernism,” and the New Woman
10/27 Fraisse and Perrot, pp. 443-532.
10/29 Bell and Offen, vol. 2, pp. 32-56. Hall, pp. 1-118.


Week 10World War I
11/3Hall, pp. 118-205.
11/5 Bell and Offen, v. 2. pp. 259-285.


Week 11 The Interwar Era
11/10 Hall, pp. 205-317.
11/12 Hall, pp. 317-end.


Week 12Fascist Europe
11/17Bell and Offen, v. 2, pp. 310-314; 334-48; 369-89.
11/19 Hall papers Due.


Week 13Culture in the Post-War Era
11/24Bell and Offen, v. 2., pp. 397-420.
11/26 Bell and Offen, v. 2. pp. 420-432 and Fout, pp. 361-90.


Week 14Women and the Welfare State
12/1Bridenthal et al, Chap. 20, pp. 535-554.
12/3Oral Reports


Week 15Course Summary
12/8Oral Reports
12/10 Finish Oral Reports and Review

Final Examination: Monday 12/15 from 8:00a.m. to 10:30a.m.

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