| Semester 2, 2022 Online | |
| Units : | 2 |
| Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts |
| School or Department : | School of Humanities & Communication |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
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Requisites
Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: MARA or MSTA or BAHN.
Enrolment is not permitted in HIS8005 if HIS4004 or HIS8004 have been previously completed.
Overview
This Honours and Masters course offers an advanced level of enquiry into the history and historiography of women鈥檚 emancipation from the social construction of gender. Students engage in History discipline practices of archival research and theoretical approaches, informed by feminist and postcolonial studies, to strengthen their expertise in both critical analysis and knowledge, relevant for their theses.
Students will examine and explore how women, who were traditionally silenced in official and other kinds of records, articulated and demonstrated political influence and power across a variety of Europe's cultural and social contexts throughout history, shaping transnational and global landscapes by the turn of the twentieth century. Students will investigate how women and men contested biblical, classical and medical teachings about gender differences, with an emphasis on the Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, revolutions, and suffrage movements as facilitators for women's freedom. Archival and other research, together with feminist and postcolonial perspectives, critical analysis, and historiographical interpretations enable students to communicate advanced levels of historical thinking and practice.
Course learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- conceptualise and synthesise complex theoretical and specialised scholarly knowledge in relation to gender and European histories as well as historiography;
- articulate an informed and critical awareness of relevant political, social, cultural and economic issues arising from the study of early and modern European history;
- demonstrate conceptual and critical analytical skills, and reflection, through the investigation and interpretation of primary and secondary source materials;
- communicate effectively in appropriate spoken and written language and by using scholarly conventions relevant to the discipline;
- express viewpoints with care, coherence and clarity in weekly seminars, assignments, and the final examination.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Foundations of gender relations, values and change: Introduction to gender in European history; The Mary Magdalen controversy: mothers, virgins and whores; Power relations: medieval nuns, female scholars and peasant women | 25.00 |
| 2. | Contesting attitudes during the Renaissance and Reformation: Narrating roles: diatribes against women and dissenting voices; Breaking with tradition: Joan of Arc and Christine de Pizan; Witchcrazes and witch hunts: gendered experience; What Renaissance?: The Republic of Letters and Protestantism | 35.00 |
| 3. | From decadence to enlightenment and revolution: Gender in the court; Dangerous Liaisons; The salonieres and the Enlightenment; Revolutionaries and nation-builders; Working class women | 35.00 |
| 4. | Women of the world: The Suffrage Movement up to 1900 | 5.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Practical A1 of 2 | No | 15 |
| Practical A2 of 2 | No | 15 |
| Essay | No | 40 |
| Time limited online examinatn | No | 30 |