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Changing Lives Women’s History from Fin-de-Siècle to the Interwar years

Changing Lives Women’s History from Fin-de-Siècle to the Interwar years. Course description.

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Changing Lives Women’s History from Fin-de-Siècle to the Interwar years

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  1. Changing LivesWomen’s History from Fin-de-Siècle to the Interwar years

  2. Course description The decades of late 19th and early 20th centuries had witnessed the emergence of new identities for women variously described as “the New Woman,” “xin nuxing,” 新女性 or “la garçonne.” In this course students will be introduced to the historical formation of these new identities of women through an examination of how the profound economic, political, social, technological and cultural changes at the turn of the century impacted on the lives and roles of women.

  3. How had women changed?

  4. How different did these two Chinese women look?

  5. Course modules Module 1 Women and WWI Module 2 Sex, marriage and motherhood Module 3 Educating the new woman Module 4 Women and employment Module 5 Women and consumerism

  6. Issues of the course What were the changes in women’s lives? What were the causes of these changes? How did these changes affect women’s identities? Case studies: the West and China

  7. Module 1 - British Women ambulance drivers in Belgium

  8. Module 2 – Sex, marriage and motherhood

  9. Module 3 – Educating the new woman

  10. Module 4 – Women and employment

  11. Module 5 – Women and consumerism

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