Gender in the Early Modern World

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This graduate seminar explores the major scholarly developments in the study of women's history, masculinity, and gendered representations in early modern Europe (1400-1800) and several colonial areas. Topics covered include the family, women's health, work, sodomy, witchcraft and the reformation, honor, slavery, missions, monasticism, and the Inquisition. Through weekly discussions, students will become familiarized with the various methodological and archival trends in recent and more classic scholarship.