Università Roma Tre

The course is divided into lectures and seminars, and traces the role of women in contemporary times.
We examine, in particular, in the nineteenth century, ie in the first two centuries of modernity, which is also the founding, processes and movements of female emancipation, from the conquest of civil rights and the demand for access to political rights.
In this direction, specific attention takes the suffragist movement.
A second important issue addressed concerns over the image of women as well as self representation as perception of the civil and ecclesiastical institutions.
Another issue concerns the study of sexuality in the nineteenth century social and health studies, but also in much of the literature, mainly concerning the universe of comfort women, and prostitutes.
The analysis of regulated prostitution, carried on in brothels, can penetrate the complex mechanisms, legal sanctions, but also social, health and cultural interconnecting civil society and state.