This course treats gender roles and family life throughout the European past, with comparative attention to families of other historical cultures and to relationships within non-human primate communities. It emphasizes the historical agency of women and children generally elided from traditional master narratives of Western Civilization, demonstrating how feminist and ethnohistorical approaches can reveal their experience. Course materials will include historiographical and anthropological literature as well as primary documents, literary works and visual sources. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).

Degree requirement — Critical Perspectives: S

1 unit

Offerings

Term	Block	Title	Instructor	Location	Student Limit/Available	Updated
Fall 2022	Block 3	Women, Children and Men: Families in Historical Perspective	Carol Neel	Palmer Hall 217	25 / 25	06/04/2023
Spring 2023	Block 8	Women, Children & Men:	Carol Neel	Palmer Hall 233A	25 / 11	06/04/2023