Università Roma Tre

The course adopts an international and comparative approach to women’s history in the contemporary age. 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 in 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 for the final exam.

Two volumes chosen among the ones listed here below:


Marie Sandell, The Rise of Women’s Transnational Activism, I.B. Tauris, London 2015

Susan R. Grayzel and Tammy M. Proctor eds., Gender and the Great War, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017

Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women’s Movement, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1997

Karen Offen, European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000

Daniela Rossini, Donne e propaganda internazionale. Percorsi femminili tra Italia e Stati Uniti nell’eta’ della Grande Guerra, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2015

Alessia Lirosi, Libere di sapere. Il diritto delle donne all’istruzione dal Cinquecento al mondo contemporaneo, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2015

Elda Guerra, Il dilemma della pace. Femministe e pacifiste sulla scena internazionale, 1914-1939, Viella, Roma 2014

Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003

Georges Duby e Michelle Perrot eds., Storia delle donne in Occidente, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1992: 8 chapters chosen by students in the two volumes “L’Ottocento” e “Il Novecento” (English version available)

Fiamma Lussana, Il movimento femminista in Italia. Esperienze, storie, memorie, Carocci, Roma 2012

and also the following essay:

Gisela Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, in Gender and History, vol 1 N.1, Spring 1989, pp. 7-30, (or: J.W. Scott, “Il genere. Un’utile categoria di analisi storica”, in Altre storie. La critica femminista della storia, a cura di P. Di Cori, Clueb, Bologna 1996, pp. 307-347).