Module HIST47430: Global Gender Histories: Archives, Power, Publics

Department: History

HIST47430: Global Gender Histories: Archives, Power, Publics

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• To explore comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to histories of gender
• To develop concepts and methodologies in gender history that are applicable across different eras and region
• To aid students in developing critical knowledge for engaging historical research and formulating independent analysis

Content

• Global gender history encompasses—among other things— women’s histories, queer histories, and histories of masculinities. The global lens on gender enables historians to better understand the interplay of local, regional, and planetary processes at work. Global gender histories are concerned with the intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, (dis)abilities and draw on interdisciplinary methodologies, to explain how people and publics have experienced, enforced and transformed gender. As a team-taught module, individual seminars will be taught by a variety of regional specialists working on a wide range of historical periods, broadly focused on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While topics will range from medicine and economics to performance and law, the seminars will each attend to gender’s historical relations to archives, power, and publics. They will also encourage students to develop their own areas of expertise.

Learning Outcomes

• An understanding of gender history as a historical subfield and methodological approach across temporal and regional scopes
• A critical knowledge of the primary sources, research questions, and methodologies that inform gender historiography.

• Knowledge of and ability to critically analyse secondary and tertiary material regarding gender history
• Ability to identify and critically interpret primary sources related to gender history
• Facility with theories, themes, and methods relevant to the gender history across different regions and periods
• Ability to use primary sources to make a targeted intervention in scholarly discourse regarding gender history

• Independent research skills, using a wide range of search tools and historical sources
• Advanced ability to synthesise complex material from a wide range of sources
• Ability to formulate complex arguments in articulate and well-structured English, observing the conventions of academic writing, conforming to high academic standards
• Effective oral and written communication
• Facility drawing together disparate forms of historical evidence
• Ability to demonstrate professional conduct through observation of professional and academic standards, including correct editorial referencing of sources
• Personal organisational skills, including time management

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Seminars will focus on a set of readings assigned by the tutor on their particular region, period, and specialism in gender history. Seminars provide students with a forum in which to assess and comment critically on the findings of others, defend their conclusions in a reasoned setting, and advance their knowledge of reading on gender history.
• Students will develop presentation skills, providing detailed presentations of materials in seminars. They will also research a particular area of gender history and present their findings in the field.
• Structured reading requires students to focus on set materials integral to the knowledge and understanding of the module. It specifically enables the acquisition of detailed knowledge and skills which will be discussed in other areas of the teaching and learning experience.
• Assessment is by means of a 5,000-word essay which requires the acquisition and application of advanced knowledge and understanding of gender history. Essays require a sustained and coherent argument in defence of a hypothesis, and must be presented in a clearly written and structured form, and with appropriate apparatus.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

None

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University