All courses numbered 500 and above are graduate courses.
Undergraduates need to submit a course permit to enroll.
HIST 610 Gender and Sexuality in Modern American History
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
This course examines the recent literature on gender and sexuality in U.S. history from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth. Core readings will reflect a range of topics and methodologies, but will focus particularly upon cultural representations and practices, ideology and politics, lived experience and popular beliefs. The animating questions of the course are: How does an analysis of gender and sexuality reshape the major interpretations of modern American history? How precisely does gender and sexuality make a difference in politics, institutions, social relations, and culture? How might we better integrate the study of women and men as gendered and sexual beings into our research and teaching of modern American history? Students will write several short pieces and develop a focused research project based on archival or other primary sources.
