Women's History Through Autobiography
History/GWST
214
Winter 2006
Professor Penny S. Gold
This
course will
explore the history of women in Europe and America from the 17th
through the
20th centuries, using autobiographies written by women as our major
source of
evidence. Within the accounts, we
will look for commonalities and divergences in women's experiences
across
place, time, religion, race, class and sexuality. Placing
the accounts in their historical contexts, we will
explore the changes in gender roles and relations as influenced by
social,
economic, and political change.
We'll also consider the nature of autobiography as a
type
of
historical evidence: In what ways
is autobiography a reliable historical source, in what ways not, and
why?
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