The course aims at achieving the instruments needed to read critically the women’s conditions, the development of male and female identities, and the setting of gender relations between the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Assuming the gender point of view as the main analysis criterion, the moments of crisis and of identity redefinition, both for women and men, will be identified together with the roles assumed by them in the public and private spheres.
Assuming the gender point of view as the main analysis criterion, the moments of crisis and of identity redefinition, both for women and men, will be identified together with the roles assumed by them in the public and private spheres.
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In the first one the analysis of the steps that marked the development of the European women’s identity and the struggle to achieve the objectives of freedom and democracy will be carried out. In the second and third part the same topics will be analysed in relation to men and to some historical junctions, like the economic and cultural crisis and the wars.
Sandro Bellassai, The Invention of Virility. Politics and male imagery in Contemporary Italy, Carocci editore
The Great War of Italian Women. Mobilitations, wrights and transformations, edited by Stefania Bartoloni, Viella editore
Programme
The acquisition of tools for understanding the women’s conditions and the gender relations will be carried out through a programme divided in three parts.In the first one the analysis of the steps that marked the development of the European women’s identity and the struggle to achieve the objectives of freedom and democracy will be carried out. In the second and third part the same topics will be analysed in relation to men and to some historical junctions, like the economic and cultural crisis and the wars.
Core Documentation
Gisela Bock, The Women in the European History. From Middle Age to the Contemporary Time, Laterza editoreSandro Bellassai, The Invention of Virility. Politics and male imagery in Contemporary Italy, Carocci editore
The Great War of Italian Women. Mobilitations, wrights and transformations, edited by Stefania Bartoloni, Viella editore
Reference Bibliography
No additional readings provided.Type of delivery of the course
In-class lectures.Attendance
recommended but not mandatoryType of evaluation
oral test