Università Roma Tre

Unit I - 6 CFU

The course will adopt an international and comparative approach to women’s history in the contemporary period. It will encompass both methodological issues, such as the use of gender as a category, or of biographies, and aspects of the condition of women and the process of their emancipation in Italy and other western countries. Students will be able to analyze themes of interest to them through discussion and individual or group presentations during classes, and choose most of the texts (available in English translation where required) for the final exam.

• G. DUBY AND M. PERROT, STORIA DELLE DONNE, "L’OTTOCENTO", G. FRAISSE E M. PERROT EDS., LATERZA, ROMA-BARI 2000 (4 ESSAYS AT STUDENT'S CHOICE);
• G. DUBY AND M. PERROT, STORIA DELLE DONNE, "IL NOVECENTO", F. THEBAUD ED., LATERZA, ROMA-BARI 1997 (4 ESSAYS AT STUDENT'S CHOICE);
• J.W. SCOTT, “IL GENERE. UN’UTILE CATEGORIA DI ANALISI STORICA”, IN P. DI CORI ED., "ALTRE STORIE. LA CRITICA FEMMINISTA ALLA STORIA", CLUEB, BOLOGNA 1996, PP. 307-347;

• AND ONE VOLUME CHOSEN AMONG THE FOLLOWING ONES:

• G. BOCK, "LE DONNE NELLA STORIA EUROPEA", LATERZA, ROMA-BARI 2003,
• V. DE GRAZIA, "LE DONNE NEL REGIME FASCISTA", MARSILIO, VENEZIA 2000,
• CAROLYN G. HEILBRUN, "WRITING A WOMAN’S LIFE", NORTON, NEW YORK 2008, AND THE ESSAY BY ELENI VARIKAS, “L’APPROCCIO BIOGRAFICO NELLA STORIA DELLE DONNE”, IN THE VOLUME EDITED BY P. DI CORI,
• D. ROSSINI ED., "LE AMERICANE. DONNE E IMMAGINI DI DONNE TRA BELLE EPOQUE E FASCISMO", BIBLINK, ROMA 2008 (THE INTRODUCTION AND 2 ESSAYS AT STUDENT'S CHOICE) AND THE ESSAY “ FEMINISM AND NATIONALISM. THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ITALIAN WOMEN, THE GREAT WAR AND THE RISE OF FASCISM (1911-1923)”, JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S HISTORY, N. 3, FALL 2014.

N.B.
THERE IS AN ENGLISH VERSION FOR MOST VOLUMES LISTED ABOVE