HIST 243 - Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Europe

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Wellesley College

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Slobodian Issues of gender and sexuality were central to projects of social and political transformation in twentieth-century Europe. Regimes of natio-nalism, socialism, fascism, and capitalism each provided prescriptive models of ?good? and ?healthy? gender relationships, making sexuali-ty the frequent and ongoing site for state and scientific intervention. At the same time, the ruptures of two world wars and the effects of modernization created spaces for unprecedented challenges to sexual mores from below. This course explores the fraught, and occasio-nally deadly, debates over sexual normalcy in twentieth century Europe through the topics of eugenics, psychoanalysis, first and second wave feminism, the sexual politics of fascism, and the rise of the permissive socie ty. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies Semester: Fall Unit: 1.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wellesley.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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