Gender and Incarceration in Modern History

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Why do institutions of confinement exist? How have definitions of normality and criminality changed over time? Should rehabilitation be different for women? Through an intersectional exploration of these questions, this upper-level course introduces students to 1) the history of incarceration in modern Europe; and 2) European influence on North American carceral models. Case studies may include British asylums, French sanatoriums, Nazi concentration campus, the Soviet Gulag, Canadian residential schools, Japanese-American internment, and U.S. mass incarceration. Conducted seminar-style. Cross-listed as HIST/ GST 307 . code 1.G.