HIS 225 — History of Women
This course in social and intellectual history examines ideas about women and women's status in society in selected periods of history. Emphasis is placed on the reading and interpretation of primary source material. Topics included are: the historiography of women's history; examples of matriarchy; women in the Ancient Near East; Greece and Rome in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; the role of women in the American slave and plantation society; women in the modern capitalist and socialist worlds.