Summer 2018 - GSWS 321 D100
Special Topics in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (4)
Class Number: 5022
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
May 7 – Aug 3, 2018: Wed, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby -
Exam Times + Location:
Aug 9, 2018
Thu, 8:30–11:30 a.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Evdoxios Doxiadis
edoxiadi@sfu.ca
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Prerequisites:
15 units.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
A specific theme within the field of gender, sexuality, and women's studies, not otherwise covered in depth in regularly scheduled courses, will be dealt with as occasion and demand warrant.
COURSE DETAILS:
European ideas and debates regarding women from the Renaissance to the Present
This course examines the perceptions and ideas regarding women, their nature, their roles in society, their rights and
obligations, their sexuality, and their relationship to men and other women that were expressed in Europe from the
Antiquity to the Present. We will be looking at the changes that European society underwent during that period, the rise of
new ideologies and systems of thought and the impact all these had on women. We will be focusing on how women
responded to, or initiated, change, as well as the counter-arguments, or new theories, developed to stifle the early
women’s movements.
The primary objective of the class is for students to escape determinist approaches to the history of women and their
struggle for rights and gain the ability to look at the past in its own terms. Furthermore, by the end of the course students
should have the ability to analyze primary source documents and use them in formulating convincing arguments. They will
also have gained the ability to write in an analytical manner, presenting a convincing thesis regarding complex issues.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
For more detailed information please see the GSWS website: http://www.sfu.ca/gsws/courses/Educational_Goals.html
Grading
NOTES:
Class attendance and participation 15%
Responses to the weekly readings 15%
Book presentation 10%
Book review paper 15%
Midterm 15%
Final paper 30%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Bridenthal, Renate et al Becoming Visible: Women in European History
Lisa DiCaprio and Merry E. Wiesner (eds.) Lives and Voices
Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
Registrar Notes:
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