HR388-6-FY-CO:
Women, Gender and Sexuality in United States History
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2023/24
Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies (School of)
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 6
Inactive
Thursday 05 October 2023
Friday 28 June 2024
30
16 January 2020
Requisites for this module
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This full-year module surveys the history of women, gender, and sexuality in America from the colonial period to the modern era. The module moves chronologically through the centuries, focusing on select themes and issues important to understanding the changing nature of womanhood, gender, and sexuality over time. With specific attention to the intersecting analytical categories of gender, race, class, and sexuality, we will spend time analysing women's political, economic, and social role in a developing nation.
This module will give students the opportunity to work with primary sources in seminar sessions. Essay assignments will also require the use of primary source evidence, in addition to secondary literature.
The module aims to:
1. explore sexuality as a historical social construction that has changed over time and taken different forms in different cultural contexts.
2. understand gender as a historical category of analysis that shaped U.S. concepts of women’s private and public roles and identities.
3. analyze women’s experiences from a socio-cultural historical framework, working with primary source evidence and secondary sources.
On successful completion of the module, student will:
1. comprehend the diversity of U.S. women’s history by exploring how legal status, social class in addition to race, nationality and culture have informed ideas of gender and sexuality over time.
2. be able to situate and analyze the concept of power in women’s history, and how movements to reorder power such as the birth control movement and feminism have reshaped gender and sexuality.
3. enhance their critical reading, writing and research skills by preparing for seminar discussions and completing the required written coursework.
General reading list:
Ware, Susan, American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction (2015).
Aronson, Amy and Kimmel, Michael, The Gendered Society Reader (2016).
Humm, Maggie, Feminisms: A Reader (1992).
DuBois, Ellen Carol, and Ruiz, Vicki, Unequal sisters: a multicultural reader in U.S. women's history (1990).
Friedman, Estelle and D'Emilio, John, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (2012).
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
Coursework / exam |
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Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
Exam |
Main exam: Remote, Open Book, 180 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
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Exam |
Reassessment Main exam: Remote, Open Book, 180 minutes during September (Reassessment Period)
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Vicki Howard, email: vh16104@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Vicki Howard
Belinda Waterman, Department of History, 01206 872313
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No external examiner information available for this module.
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Of 44 hours, 44 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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