Course: Gender History - 19th Century

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Course title Gender History - 19th Century
Course code UHV/GMOD1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Stráníková Jana, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Pavelková Čevelová Zuzana, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Childhood; the child; the first educational activity. Taking care of infants, toddlers, and children of a pre-school age. The first pre-school institutions. Toys. The girl; girls' education. Girls' education in pre-industrial and industrial societies. Prescribed literature for girls. Attempts to improve the quality of girls' education. Love; weddings; marriages. Engagements; marriage banns; courtship; the wedding day and the wedding journey. Motherhood. Pregnancy; childbirth; midwives; maternity hospitals; attempts to plan parenthood. The woman - a being in the private sphere. The woman in a family, household. Personal hygiene, taking care of health and beauty. From sexual puritanism to the discovery of the body. Physical training and sports. Sex at the doorstep of Modern times. Female sexuality in the 19th century. Women and the world of work. Fight for university education. Women and politics. Search for women's identities. Entering politics. Women at the edge of society. Prostitution; repression; regimentation; abolition. A prostitute's routine at the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to depict the basic differences in the status of women in the Czech (or rather Central European) society and the Western European society during the "long" 19th century.
Students will be able to evaluate the development in the 19th century considering not only the process of emancipation, but also the context of cultural history, or rather everyday history.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination

The oral examination requires a knowledge of literature engaged, the subject matter discussed in lectures, and orientation in the field.
Recommended literature
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  • Abrams, Lynn. Zrození moderní ženy : Evropa 1789-1918. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2005. ISBN 80-7325-060-8.
  • ARCHER, Jules. Breaking barriers the Feminist revolution, from Susan B. Anthony to Margaret Sanger to Betty Friedan. Nex York, 1991. ISBN 0670831042.
  • ASHBY, R. Her Story.. New York, 1995.
  • BARAŃSKA, Anna. Kobiety v powstaniu listopadowym 1830-1831. Lublin, 1998. ISBN 83-87703-11-7.
  • Bock, Gisela. Ženy v evropských dějinách : od středověku do současnosti. Praha: NLN Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7106-494-7.
  • CATLING, Jo. A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 2000.
  • ČADKOVÁ, Kateřina a kol. Dějiny žen aneb Evropská žena od středověku do poloviny 20. století v zajetí historiografie. Pardubice, 2006. ISBN 80-7194-920-5.
  • DUBY, G., PERROT, M., FRAISSE, G. History of women in the West. Volume 4.. Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • FLEXNER, Leonor - FITZPATRICK, Ellen. Century of struggle. The Woman´s Right Movement in the United States. 1996. ISBN 0-674-10654-7.
  • FRENCH, Lorely. German Women as Letter Writters: 1750-1850. Cranbury - London, 1996. ISBN 0-8386-3664-0.
  • Fuchs, Rachel G. Gender and poverty in nineteenth-century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-62926-8.
  • FUCHS, Rachel Ginnis. Contested Paternity. Constructing Families in Modern France. Baltimore, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8018-8832-8.
  • GOODMAN, Dena. Becoming a woman in the age of letters. New York, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8014-7545-0.
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  • KLABOUCH, Jiří. Manželství a rodina v minulosti. Praha, 1960.
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  • Lenderová, Milena . Eva nejen v ráji : žena v Čechách od středověku do 19. století. Praha: Karolinum, 2002. ISBN 80-246-0375-6.
  • Lenderová, Milena . Žena v českých zemích od středověku do 20. století. Praha: NLN Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7106-988-1.
  • Lenderová, Milena. K hříchu i k modlitbě : žena v minulém století. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1999. ISBN 80-204-0737-5.
  • Lenderová, Milena. Zdenka Braunerová. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000. ISBN 80-204-0868-1.
  • Malečková, Jitka. Úrodná půda : žena ve službách národa. Praha: ISV, 2002. ISBN 80-85866-95-1.
  • Sak, Robert. Dáma z rajského ostrova : Sidonie Nádherná a její svět. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000. ISBN 80-204-0852-5.
  • Sak, Robert. Salon dvou století : Anna Lauermannová-Mikschová a její hosté. Praha: Paseka, 2003. ISBN 80-7185-525-1.
  • SMITH, Bonnie G. Changing lives. Woman in European History since 1700. Lexington, 1989. ISBN 0-669-14561-0.
  • Smith, Virginia. Dějiny čistoty a osobní hygieny. Praha: Academia, 2011. ISBN 978-80-200-1885-4.
  • ŠIMŮNKOVÁ, Alena. Statut, odpovědnost a láska: vztahy mezi mužem a ženou v české měšťanské společnosti v 19.století, Český časopis historický, roč. 95, č. 1, s. 55-109.. Praha, 1997.
  • Tinková, Daniela. Tělo, věda, stát : zrození porodnice v osvícenské Evropě. Praha: Argo, 2010. ISBN 978-80-257-0223-9.
  • VOLET-JEANNERT, Helena. La femme bourgeoise ? Prague 1860-1895. De la philantrephie ? l'emancipation. Geneve, 1988.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter