TR 9:30-10:45, Cabell 320
Schedule
* on Toolkit: http://toolkit.virginia.edu/HIEU334-100 (will
be coming soon)
# paper due
@ e-mail messages due to HIEU334-100@toolkit.virginia.edu (further
explanation and formation of groups forthcoming)
[] no class or office hours
BV Becoming Visible: Women in European History, 3rd ed.,
ed. Renate Bridenthal, Susan Mosher Stuard, and Merry E. Wiesner
R 1/18 Orientation and organization
I. From Women's History to the History of Gender
T 1/23 Toward a history of gender, 1
BV, Preface and Introduction (xiii-xiv, 1-13)
*Sherry B. Ortner, "Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?"
(1974)
*Joan Kelly-Gadol, "The Social Relations of the Sexes: Methodological
Implications of Women's History" (1976)
R 1/25 Toward a history of gender, 2
*Joan Wallach Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical
Analysis" (1986)
*Gisela Bock, "Women's History and Gender History: Aspects
of an International Debate" (1989)
II. Late Antiquity
T 1/30 Society and the sexes in antiquity
Marilyn Katz, "Daughters of Demeter: Women in Ancient Greece,"
in BV (47-75)
Jo Ann McNamara, "Matres Patriae/Matres Ecclesiae: Women
of Rome," in BV (77-103)
[W 1/31 last day to drop class]
R 2/1 The male Christian self: a paradigm, 1
Augustine, Confessions, Books I-IV (21-90)
@ messages from Group 1 by 6 PM W 1/31
[W 2/2 last day to add class]
T 2/6 The male Christian self: a paradigm, 2
Augustine, Confessions, Books V-VII (91-156)
@ messages from Group 2 by 6 PM M 2/5
R 2/8 The male Christian self: a paradigm, 3
Augustine, Confessions, Books VIII-IX (157-205)
@ messages from Group 3 by 6 PM W 2/7
[M 2/12 #Paper 1 due by 4:30 PM.]
III. The Middle Ages
T 2/13 Gender shifts in the Middle Ages: two historians' perspectives
Lisa M. Bitel, "Women in Early Medieval Northern Europe,"
in BV (105-126)
Susan M. Stuard, "The Dominion of Gender or How Women Fared
in the High Middle Ages," in BV (128-150)
@ messages from Group 4 by 6 PM M 2/12
R 2/15 An early medieval mother advises her son, 1
Dhuoda, Handbook for William, Introduction, Prologue, Books 1-3
(ix-xxviii, 1-42)
@ messages from Group 5 by 6 PM W 2/14
T 2/20 An early medieval mother advises her son, 2
Dhuoda, Handbook for William, Books 4-11 (43-106)
@ messages from Group 1 by 6 PM M 2/19
R 2/22 A late medieval woman advises other women, 1
Christine de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies, introductory
material, Prologue, Part One (13-105)
@ messages from Group 2 by 6 PM W 2/21
T 2/27 A late medieval woman advises other women, 2
Christine de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies, Parts
Two-Three (109-180)
@ messages from Group 3 by 6 PM M 2/26
R 3/1 Review
T 3/6 midterm examination (in-class)
IV. Renaissance
R 3/8 Modern scholars on gender in Renaissance Italy, 1
Judith C. Brown and Robert C. Davis, eds., Gender and Society
in Renaissance Italy, Introduction, Part One (1-60)
@ messages from Group 4 by 6 PM W 3/7
[T 3/13, R 3/15 no class or office hours: spring break]
T 3/20 Men in the Renaissance: a classic view, 1
Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, Book I (31-104)
@ messages from Group 5 by 6 PM M 3/19
[last day to withdraw from class]
R 3/22 Modern scholars on gender in Renaissance Italy, 2
Brown and Davis, Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy, Part
Two (63-126)
@ messages from Group 1 by 6 PM W 3/21
T 3/27 Women in the Renaissance: a classic view, 2
Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, Book III (207-278)
@ messages from Group 2 by 6 PM M 3/26
[R 3/29 no class or office hours: instructor out of town]
T 4/3 Modern scholars on gender in Renaissance Italy, 3
Brown and Davis, Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy, Part
Three (129-170)
@ messages from Group 3 by 6 PM M 4/2
R 4/5 Modern scholars on gender in Renaissance Italy, 4
Brown and Davis, Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy, Part
Four (171-233)
@ messages from Group 4 by 6 PM W 4/4
[M 4/9 #Paper 2 due by 4:30 PM.]
T 4/10 A creative man in the late Renaissance, 1
Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography, 15-130
@ messages from Group 5 by 6 PM M 4/9
R 4/12 A creative man in the late Renaissance, 2
Cellini, Autobiography, one of the following sections TBA: 130-226,
226-311, 312-397
[no messages]
V. Reformations
T 4/17 Gender in early modern Europe: a downturn for women?
Susan C. Karant-Nunn, "The Reformation of Women," in
BV (174-201)
Merry E. Wiesner, "Spinning Out Capital: Women's Work in
Preindustrial Europe, 1350-1750," in BV (202-231)
@ messages from Group 1 by 6 PM M 4/16
R 4/19 The pursuit of holiness in Catholic Europe
*Donald Weinstein and Rudolph M. Bell, Saints and Society: The
Two Worlds of Western Christendom, Introduction, Chapters 7-8
@ messages from Group 2 by 6 PM W 4/18
T 4/24 Seeking and attaining female holiness, 1
Teresa of Avila, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, Chapters 1-10 (64-124)
@messages from Group 3 by 6 PM M 4/23
R 4/26 Seeking and attaining female holiness, 2
Teresa, Life, one of the following sections TBA (219-275, 276-330,
331-399)
[no messages]
[F 4/27 #Paper 3 due by 4:30 PM.]
T 5/1 Summing up
no assigned reading
@ messages from Groups 4-5 by 6 PM M 4/30
[M 5/7 #Paper 4 (take-home final examination) due by 4:30 PM.]