History and Gender in the Early Modern Age
Code: 100370 ECTS Credits: 62024/2025
| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2500501 History | OT | 4 |
Contact
- Name:
- Montserrat Jiménez Sureda
- Email:
- montserrat.jimenez@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
Students will receive the lessons in Catalan
Objectives and Contextualisation
We consider it essential to immediately correct a historical omission. Traditionally, women, like other collectives like childhood, have been absent from the historical analysis that men have taken as protagonists and exclusive agents of this. So social, political, military or cultural history has been written from an exclusively male perspective. The result has been as partial and biased as the approach that preceded it and has hindered a better understanding of the evolution of human societies, with all its complexity and richness of nuances. The incorporation of the subject of history of gender in the general studies of history supposes to strengthen the category of science that has the discipline, that, when excluding the women and the childhood, could not give a really global vision of the past. This will entail building a rigorous history capable of responding to a series of scientific and social questions. In fact it means making history a useful science to the entire social body and not just to a dominant group.
The subject is proposed, as objectives, the following:
1. Address issues that allow the study of historical phenomena from a global perspective, highlighting the gender perspective, until recently omitted in the analyzes of the modern era.
2. To expose the historical problems of the history of gender in modern times.
3. Analyze historical data specific to the history of gender in modern times.
4. Understand the origins of the current situation and relate the past and the present in an active way. Study the genesis of current situations.
5. Enable people to understand and respect biological and cultural differences, while demonstrating the need for strict legal and real equality of all human groups, regardless of age, ethnicity, religion or sex.
Competences
- Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
- Identifying the main historiographical tendencies and critically analysing their development.
- Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
Learning Outcomes
- Analysing the key issues that allow us to address the study of historical phenomena from a gender perspective.
- Assessing and critically solving the characteristic historiographical problems of gender history.
- Communicating in your mother tongue or other language both in oral and written form by using specific terminology and techniques of Historiography.
- Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
- Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
- Organising and planning the search of historical information.
- Properly using the specific vocabulary of History.
- Recognising and implementing the following teamwork skills: commitment to teamwork, habit of cooperation, ability to participate in the problem solving processes.
- Recognising diversity and multiculturalism.
- Solving problems autonomously.
- Submitting works in accordance with both individual and small group demands and personal styles.
- Using the characteristic computing resources of the field of History.
Content
1. What was a woman in the Ancien Régime?
2. The pillars of a worldview
3. Misogyny and phylogeny
4. Femeninotopies and masculinotopies
5. The women's Renaissance
6. Reform and Counter-Reform
7. America
8. Baroque
9. Everything for women but without women
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Seminars and classroom practices | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 3, 6, 7 |
| Theoretical classes | 39 | 1.56 | 1, 7, 9 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutorials | 15 | 0.6 | |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Individual study for the preparation of the subject | 50 | 2 | 1, 6, 10, 12 |
| Writing of papers, oral presentations, teamwork | 25 | 1 | 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12 |
This subject will consist of theoretical classes and practical classes, individualized and collective.
In the individualized practical activity related to this subject, the students will have to read, understand and reflect in writing on a reading that the teacher will assign. There will also be a work that, once finished, will be exposed orally in class.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral expositions and active participation in classroom | 20% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| Papers | 20 % | 2 | 0.08 | 3, 5, 7, 11 |
| Two test | 60% (30 % + 30 %) | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 |
The way to evaluate the follow-up of the directed activities (master classes) will be two exams. These tests will represent 60% (30+ 30) of the student's overall grade. The bibliographic work will constitute 20% of the grade. The activity related to reading, reflection and exhibition in class of individualized material will represent 20% of the overall score.
Those students who accept the single assessment will be assessed with the result of the following parameters: a single final exam (60% of the grade), the delivery by e-mail of the recording of an oral presentation at the end of the syllabus (20%), the final delivery of a written work agreed with the teacher (20%).
The student who does not complete all the evaluation exams programmed in the classroom or does not appear in the compulsory evaluation activities for a value higher than 60% of the final grade will be qualified with a "Not Evaluable", and will not be able to apply for the recovery .
Any irregularity committed by a student during the performance of a test (copy, plagiarism) will have a grade of zero in the specific evaluation section. Various irregularities committed imply a global score of zero.
The recovery will consist of a global examination of the subject matter and will be held on the official dates established by the Faculty. In no case may recovery be considered as a means to improve the qualification of students who have already passed the subject in the normal process of continuous evaluation. The maximum note that can be obtained in the recovery will be 5.0 (Approved).
-The students will have the right to review the results of the tests carried out.
-The particular cases that adequately justified have to be objecto of a particular treatment will be taken into account.
Bibliography
Bibliographical selection
D. a.: Historia y género. Las mujeres en la Europa Moderna y Contemporánea, Alfons el Magnànim, València, 1990.
D. a.: Historia de las mujeres. Una historia propia, Crítica, Barcelona, 1991.
D. a.: Historia de las mujeres en Occidente, Taurus, Madrid, 2006.
D. a.: El lugar de las mujeres en la historia, Universitat de València, València, 2023.
Fauré, C.: Enciclopedia histórica y política de las mujeres, Akal, Madrid, 2010.
Jiménez Sureda, M.: Manual d'Història de la Dona, U.A.B., Bellaterra, 2021.
Jiménez Sureda, M.: "La situació femenina en l'Antic Règim", Revista de Catalunya, 174 (2002), pp. 25-52.
Jiménez Sureda, M.: "La mujer en la esfera laboral a lo largo de la historia", Manuscrits, 27 (2009), pp. 21-49.
Jiménez Sureda, M.: "La mujer idea es, realmente, la otra. Alteridades femeninas y relato histórico", e-Humanista, 57 (2024).
Morant, I (dir.): Historia de las mujeres en España y en América Latina, Cátedra, Madrid, 2006.
Segura Graíño, C.: Diccionario de mujeres en la historia, Espasa, Madrid, 1998.
Software
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Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |