Course Catalogue

Humanities and Social Science

1. Develop an understanding of how historians have used ‘gender’ to explore men’s and women’s lives in the long nineteenth century 2. Engage and analyse a variety of primary sources including personal testimony, discursive texts and visual sources. 3. Identify and critically engage with secondary reading.

Outline Syllabus:In ‘Gendering the Past’ you will examine the everyday lives of men and women in the long nineteenth century (1780-1914). We will focus on how gendered identities evolved by listening to the words of men and women in their diaries and letters. We will unpack ‘separate sphere’ ideology and how Victorian society understood what it was to be a ‘man’ or ‘woman’ by looking at conduct literature, medical texts, newspapers, paintings, and films. This module will introduce you to an exciting and burgeoning area of social and cultural history. We will turn to the expanding areas of material culture studies, sensory studies, and gender studies to analyse the most intimate areas of people’s lives in the long nineteenth century. 1. Introduction- What is Gender 2. Love and Courtship 3. Marriage and Divorce 4. Gendering the Home 5. Compulsory Heterosexuality 6. Queer Love and Desire 7. The Gendered Body 8. Gender and Crime 9. Political Citizenship 10. Researching Victorian Gender 11. Reading Primary Source Materials

Module Overview:
This course will introduce you to an exciting and burgeoning area of social and cultural history. We will turn to the expanding areas of material culture studies, sensory studies and gender studies in order to analyse the most intimate areas of peoples lives in the long nineteenth-century

Additional Information:This course will introduce you to an exciting and burgeoning area of social and cultural history. We will turn to the expanding areas of material culture studies, sensory studies and gender studies in order to analyse the most intimate areas of people’s lives in the long nineteenth-century