History of Women

Year
0
Academic year
2023-2024
Code
01010861
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Não applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical lectures by the professors, the use of diverse sources of typology, presentations by students, discussions and comments.

Learning Outcomes

Students should:

- Understand the basic concepts of the chronological development of discourse, representations and legal-political conditions, family, socio-economic, technical, cultural and religious of women of the West European Middle Ages to the tweentieth century;

- Understand the diversity of women's daily lives and behaviors and their differences compared to current  coeval standards and myths;

- Acquire skills for the critical understanding of current issues of gender equality and its historical roots.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

In each of the Ages (Medieval, Modern and Contemporary) we will discuss aspects listed in the learning objectives to the extent that current research permits:

1. Standards discussions and representations of women.

2. Legal status and political rights. Women and power.

3. Women in the family and in the church.

4. Social and economic pluralities. Women and work.

5. Women and culture: personages, creation and consumption.

Head Lecturer(s)

Irene Maria de Montezuma de Carvalho Mendes Vaquinhas

Assessment Methods

Assessment continues
Other: 25.0%
Mini Tests: 75.0%

Final assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Anderson B., Zinsser, J. (2000). Historia de las mujeres. Barcelona: Crítica

Coelho, M.H. (2011). D. Filipa de Lencastre. A Inglesa Rainha 1360-1415

Lisboa:QuidNovi-APH

Coelho, M.H. & Ventura, L.(1986). A mulher como um bem e os bens da mulher In A mulher na sociedade portuguesa I, Coimbra: FLUC

Duby, G., Perrot, M. dir. (1995). História das mulheres 2-5, Rev. Cient: M.H. Coelho, I. Vaquinhas, L. Ventura, G. Mota, Porto: Afrontamento

Lopes, M.A. (1989). Mulheres, espaço e sociabilidade. A transformação dos papéis femininos em Portugal (séc. XVIII). Lisboa: L. Horizonte

Nash, M. (2005), As mulheres no mundo. História, desafios e movimentos. Vila Nova de Gaia: Ausência

Oliveira, A. R. & Oliveira, A. R. (2010). A mulher. In J. Mattoso (dir) História da Vida Privada. Idade Média. Lisboa: T&D

Vaquinhas, I. (2012). "Senhoras e mulheres" na sociedade portuguesa do século XIX. Lisboa: Colibri

Wiesner, M. (2008). Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press