HIST 40033 - Women and Family: 1500-1800

This course will focus on the changing patterns of gender and sexuality in Europe and America between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. In a period of dramatic political change and dynamic cultural conflict, early modern peoples often used ideas about gender to express and to contain the changes occurring around them. This was true of Native Americans confronted with European expansion, settlement and mission activity as well as statesmen and religious leaders in Europe upheavals of colonization, religious reformation, emerging capitalism and political transformation.





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