HIST 4391 - [Writing Women’s Lives]

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 4391) (HA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2013-2014.

M. Washington.

This seminar focuses on women’s biography and the ways in which writings on/about women have impacted critical historical thinking. The course is arranged historically and thematically, covering the 19th and 20th centuries. In terms of writings by/about women, we will engage such issues as: race, class, politics, sentimentality, literary license, stereotypes, and public versus private. A research paper at the end of the course is required.