History

HIST5007	Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Europe (O)	3 ch (3S) (W)
Discusses themes and theories in the history of gender and sexuality in twentieth-century Europe. Examines such topics as “deviant” sexualities at the fin-de-siècle; gender upheaval in the First World War; the “New Woman” of the 1920s; gender and race in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy; sexual violence in war and genocide; the evolution of the homosexual rights movement; prostitution and the international sex trade; and debates over birth control and maternalism in modern society.