WGST 379 H01 29073

Humanities, HistoryCiv, NotCore

Survey of women in European history from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Focus on women’s citizenship beginning with Enlightenment idea of rights through developments in modern feminism. CL: 2020.

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This class addresses the experiences of European women from the eighteenth century to the present.  We focus on European women’s engagement with the concept of rights: from its emergence in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the realization of a key right – suffrage – in the mid twentieth century and beyond.  We also address critiques of rights-focused feminism, most notably the socialist rejection of rights as an individualist discourse.  We will read both primary sources and recent scholarship examining rights and the role of feminist movements in the development of modern states.