This page collects course titles and course descriptions of past (and sometimes present and upcoming) classes in gender history offered at Florida State University, to help graduate students in planning major and minor fields in gender history.

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Spring 2020 – Seminar in US Gender History
Prof. Suzanne Sinke
This course provides you with an introduction to key authors and selected topics in the history of gender for the United States. Though we will discuss some classic works and theoretical texts, our focus will remain on recent scholarship. Further, you will explore one element of U.S. gender history that interests you in greater depth and write a seminar paper based on primary source research contextualized through secondary works on that topic. In a graduate program of study the course fits topically as Gender History or geographically as U.S. History. The readings include scholarship across U.S. History hence where you count it chronologically in your program of study will depend on your paper topic. Choose accordingly. Class sessions will consist primarily of a discussion of readings early in the semester, and include a variety of process steps for the final paper across the semester. You should aspire for the seminar paper to be something you could present at a conference or perhaps submit as a potential publication in a scholarly journal.

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Fall 2019 – Seminar: Gender and Sexuality 
Prof. Charles Upchurch
Fields: 1) Gender and Sexuality 2) European History
This course will expose students to the latest debates and methodologies in gender history and the history of sexuality, drawing primarily on British gender history and the theoretical works that have shaped the study of gender and sexuality more broadly. The methodologies of gender history are now applied in all fields of history, including political, economic, social, cultural, religious, and military history, just as the theories that have shaped gender history are shared broadly within the profession, especially by social and cultural historians. Students will produce an original research paper for the class. The research paper can be on British gender history, or it can be based on the primary and secondary sources that the student expects to work with in their dissertation, but interpreting those sources with either a gendered analysis or a theoretical framework they had not yet considered. A significant amount of time will be spent workshopping student papers, and identifying which theoretical frameworks or methodological approaches might best enhance the analysis of the sources and questions. While gender history is a component of most courses I teach, I offer a course primarily focused on gender history (such as this one) only once every three years.   

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Fall 2019 – Medicine and Law in Eighteenth-Century France
Prof. Cathy McClive
This class will count for the fields of gender, STEM, early modern Europe and global history.

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Spring 2019 – War and Home Fronts in East Asia HIS 69XX
Prof. Annika Culver
By investigating imperial Japan and its colonized periphery (Korea, Manchuria, and later, portions of China) as a lens to view complex issues of home front-battlefield interactions, gender, and postwar reconstruction, this graduate-level course examines how individuals experienced life under wartime conditions and then dealt with its aftermath following either buoying victory (Sino-Japanese, 1894-1895 and Russo-Japanese Wars, 1904-1905) or defeat (Asia-Pacific War, 1937-1945).  In its phase of imperial expansion, Japan occupied numerous surrounding territories, but after losing World War II, experienced Allied Occupation (1945-1952).  Contemporary Japan currently exists as thriving democracy and peaceful international actor, but a wartime legacy of an expansionist, militarist past continues to haunt relations with its continental neighbors. This course examines how the Japanese themselves experienced war and viewed their society. This class will count for the fields of gender and War and Society.

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Spring 2019 – Medicine and Science, 1500-1800
Prof. Cathy McClive
This class will count for the fields of gender, STEM, early modern Europe and Atlantic World.

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Spring 2018 – U.S. Gender History Seminar
Prof. Katherine Mooney
This course allows students to dive into texts that have followed Joan Scott’s call to consider gender as a useful category of historical analysis. Each assigned book (some classics, some new) serves as a model of one way of engaging gender and an example of a particular body of work in the field. With these in mind, students should be prepared to stake out their own research projects; considerable time in class will be devoted to the writing process, from idea, to research, to drafting, to editing, to presentation. This class will count for the fields of gender history and US history (either half). This course is distinct from the colloquium in U.S. Gender History, taught in the Spring 2017 semester by Prof. Sinke.

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Spring 2017 – Colloquium: U.S. Gender History
Prof. Suzanne Sinke
This course provides you with an introduction to key authors and selected topics in the history of gender for the United States. Though we will discuss some classic works and theoretical texts, our focus will remain on recent scholarship. Further, you will explore the scholarship on one element of U.S. gender history that interests you in greater depth and write a historiography on that topic. In a graduate program of study the course fits topically as Gender History or geographically as U.S. History. The readings include scholarship across U.S. History hence where you count it chronologically in your program of study will depend on your historiography topic. Choose accordingly. Class sessions will consist primarily of a discussion of readings, typically five-six articles/ book chapters per week. Come prepared to discuss all of them. You will write a short reaction paper prior to most class sessions. Insights about gender and how historians approach it will build over the semester.

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Spring 2016 – Seminar: Writing History: Gender/Theory
Prof. Charles Upchurch, British History
This course focuses on identifying the best approaches and theoretical frameworks to apply to specific research questions and source materials. The readings will expose students to the latest debates methodologies in gender history, drawing primarily on British gender history and the more theoretical works that have shaped the study of gender and sexuality more broadly. The methodologies of gender history are now applied in all fields of history, including political, economic, social, cultural, religious, and military history, just as the theories that have shaped gender history are shared broadly within the profession, especially by social and cultural historians. Students will produce an original research paper for the class. The research paper can be on British gender history, or it can be based on the primary and secondary sources that the student expects to work with in their dissertation, but interpreting those sources with either a gendered analysis or a theoretical framework they had not yet considered. A significant amount of time will be spent workshopping student papers, and identifying which theoretical frameworks or methodological approaches might best enhance the analysis of the sources and questions. In addition, as time permits, there will be an ongoing discussion throughout the semester on how to make the best use of digital resources, not only to research a topic, but also to create professional connections within your field, to enhance publication and presentation options.

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Fall 2014 – Graduate Colloquium: Gender and Consumerism in Japan from Empire to Postwar, 1880s-1950s
Dr. Annika A. Culver, East Asian History
This graduate-level course investigates how products, people, and companies circulated throughout Japan and its empire into wartime and the postwar period, and how gender impacted consumption and consumerism in China, Japan, and Korea during pivotal moments in East Asian history.  We examine how working-class and middle- to upper-class women emerged as important consumers for household items, foods, fashions, cosmetics, and even wartime propaganda. We also look at how state propaganda functioned as “advertising” to instruct women to engage in behaviors beneficial to the nation (or corporation) from the Meiji (1868-1912) to early postwar period (1945-1955).

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Use the comments section below to suggest classes or leave comments. The gender history faculty will review all requests.

Alonso, Ana Maria. Thread of Blood: Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico’s Northern Frontier, University of Arizona Press, 1995.

Amadium, Ifi. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society, Zed. 1987.

Bailey, Beth. Sex in the Heartland, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Bernstein, Gail, ed. Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945, Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1991.

Block, Sharon. Rape and Sexual Power in Early America, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Bourke, Joanna. Dismembering the Male: Men’s Bodies, Britain and the Great War, University of ChicagoPress, 1996.

Brown, Kathleen. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia, University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Besse, Susan K. Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940, University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Brundage, James A. Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe, University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Burton, Antonette, ed. Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernity, Routledge, 2000.

Butler, Judith. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, 2004.

The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott’s Critical Feminism, Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed, eds., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.

Camp, Stephanie M.H.. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Carey, Jane. “The Racial Imperatives of Sex: birth control and eugenics in Britain, the United States and Australia in the interwar years,” Women’s History Review, 21 5(November 2012): 733–52.

“Men about town: Representations of foppery and masculinity in early eighteenth-century urban society,” Philip Carter, in Gender in Eighteenth-Century England Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, eds., London: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997.

Clark, Anna, “Anne Lister’s Construction of Lesbian Identity,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 7 (1996): 23-50.

Clark, Anna. Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution, Princeton University Press, 2005.

Cleves, Rachel Hope, Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Clinton, Catherine, and Michele Gillespie, eds. The Devil’s Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Cook, Matt. Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Dabhoiwala, Faramerz. The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Deslandes, Paul. Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920, Indiana University Press, 2015.

Earle, Rebecca. “Rape and the Anxious Republic: Revolutionary Colombia, 1810-1830,” in Dore, Elizabeth and Maxine Molyneux, eds. Hidden History of Gender and the State in Latin America, Duke University Press, 2000.

Earner-Byrne, Lindsey. “The Rape of Mary M.: A Microhistory of Sexual Violence and Moral Redemption in 1920s Ireland,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 24 1(January 2015): 75-98.

Edwards, Laura. Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Engelstein, Laura. The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Russia, Cornell University Press, 1992.

Fischer, Kirsten. Suspect Relations: Sex, Race and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina, Cornell University Press, 2002.

Foster, Thomas. Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison, New York: Vintage Books, 1995.

Foucault, Michel. A History of Sexuality: An Introduction, vol. 1, Knopf Publishing Group, 1990.

Foucault, Michel, “The Subject and Power,” Critical Inquiry 8 4(Summer, 1982): 777-95.

Freedman, Alisa; Miller, Laura; and Yano, Christine.  Modern Girls on the Go:  Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 2013.

Freedman, Estelle B.. Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Freud, Sigmund. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Basic Books, 2000.

Fruhstuck, Sabine. Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in
the Japanese Amry. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2007.

Fruhstuck, Sabine, and Anne Walthall, eds. Recreating Japanese Men.
Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2011.

Ghoussoub, Mai and Emma Sinclair-Webb, eds. Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East, Palgrave/Saki, 2000.

Gilmore, Glenda. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Gleadle, Kathryn. “Revisiting Family Fortunes: reflections on the twentieth anniversary of the publication of L. Davidoff & C. Hall (1987) Family Fortunes: men and women of the English middle class, 1780–1850,” Women’s History Review, 16 5(2007): 773-82.

Glymph, Thavolia. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Godbeer, Richard. Sexual Revolution in Early America. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Gordon, Andrew.  Fabricating Consumers:  The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2012.

Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings: An American Controversy, University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Gowing, Laura. Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London, Oxford University Press, 1996.

Guttman, Matthew C. The Meaning of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City, The University of California Press, 1996.

Guttierez, Ramon A. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846, Stanford University Press, 1991.

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching Rev. ed., New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Hunter, Tera W..  To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Karen Harvey, “The History of Masculinity, circa 1650–1800,” Journal of British Studies, 44 2(April 2005): 296-311.

Karen Harvey and Alexandra Shepard, “What Have Historians Done with Masculinity? Reflections on Five Centuries of British History, circa 1500 to 1950,” Journal of British Studies, 44 (2005): 274-80.

Hekman, Susan J., ed., Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.

Herzog, Dagmar. “Pleasure, Sex, and Politics Belong Together,” Critical Inquiry (Winter 1998).

Hodgson, Dorothy and Sheryl McCurdy, eds. “Wicked” Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender, Heinemann, 2001.

Hoganson, Kristin L.. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American War, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

Houlbrook, Matt, and Harry Cocks, eds., Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Hull, Isabel. Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815, Cornell University Press, 1996.

Hunt, Nancy Rose, et al. Gendered Colonialisms in African History, Blackwell, 1997.

Hurtado, Albert. Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Early California, University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

Jerome, Roy, ed. Conceptions of postwar German masculinity, State University of New York Press, 2001.

Kaplan, Temma. “Naked Mothers and Maternal Sexuality: Some Reactions to the Aba Women’s War,” in Jetter, Alexis, Annelise Orleck, and Diana Taylor, eds. The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right, University Press of New England, 1997.

Kent, Susan. Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Postwar Britain, Princeton University Press, 1994.

Kimmel, Michael. Manhood in America: A Cultural History 3rd ed, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Koven, Seth. Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London, Princeton University Press, 2006.

Lancaster, Roger. Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua, University of California Press, 1992.

Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Harvard University Press, 1992.

Levitan, Kathrin. “Redundancy, the ‘Surplus Woman’ Problem, and the British Census, 1851–1861,” Women’s History Review, 17 3(July 2008): 359–76.

Leys, Ruth. “The Turn to Affect: A Critique,” Critical Inquiry, 37 3 (Spring 2011): 434-472.

Lewis, Earl and Heidi Ardizzone. “A Modern Cinderella: Race, Sexuality, and Social Class in the Rhinelander Case,” International Labor and Working Class History 51(Spring 1997).

Liang, Ellen Johnston.  Selling Happiness:  Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early Twentieth Century Shanghai.  Honolulu:  University of Hawaii Press, 2004.

Lyons, Clare. Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2006.

McCall, Leslie. “The Complexity of Intersectionality,” Signs 30 3(Spring 2005): 1771-1800.

McCurry, Stephanie. Confederate Reckoning: Politics and Power in the Civil War South, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

McDonald, Lynn. “Florence Nightingale a Hundred Years on: who she was and what she was not,” Women’s History Review, 19 5(Nov 2010): 721-40.

Meyerowitz, Joanne. ed. Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Post-War America, Temple University Press, 1994.

Miller, Laura and Jan Bardsley, ed. Bad Girls of Japan. New York:
Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.

Moore, Henrietta and Megan Vaughan. Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Agricultural Change in Northern Province, Zambia 1890-1990, Heinemann, 1994.

Morgan, Jennifer L., Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Chapel Hill: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).

Mort, Frank. Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society, Yale University Press, 2010.

Mumford, Kevin J. Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century,  New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Musallam, B. F. Sex and Society in Islam, Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Najmabadi, Afsaneh. “Beyond the Americas: Are Gender and Sexuality Useful Categories of Analysis?” Journal of Women’s History, 18 1(Spring 2006): 11-21

Nye, Robert. Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Nye, Robert. “Western Masculinities in War and Peace,” American Historical Review, 112 (April, 2007): 417-38.

Peirce, Leslie. “Seniority, Sexuality and Social Order: The Vocabulary of Gender in Early Modern Ottoman Society,” in Zilfi, Madeline C., ed. Women in the Ottoman Empire, Brill, 1997.

Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty, Vintage Books, 1997.

Roberts, Mary Louise. Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing gender in postwar France, 1917-1927, University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Roberts, Mary Louise. What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France, University Of Chicago Press, 2014.

Rose, Sonya. What Is Gender History? Polity, 2010.

Rosen, Hannah. Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Rotundo, E. Anthony. American Masculinity: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era, New York: Basic, 1994.

Scott, Joan. “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” American Historical Review, 91 5(1986): 1053-75.

Scott, Joan Wallach. The Fantasy of Feminist History. Duke University Press, 2012.

Silverberg, Miriam. Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

Silverblatt, Irene. Sun, Moon, and Witches: Gender Ideologies in Inca and Colonial Peru, Princeton University Press, 1987.

Sinha, Mrinalini. Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

Sland, Bugitte. Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s, Princeton University Press, 2000.

Smith, Lois M. and Alfred Padula. Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba, Oxford University Press, 1996.

Snyder, R. Claire, “What Is Third‐Wave Feminism? A New Directions Essay,” Signs, 34 1(Autumn 2008): 175-96.

Somerville, Diane M. “Rape, Race, and Castration in Slave Law in the Colonial and Early South,” in Clinton, Catherine and Michel Gillespie, eds. The Devil’s Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Stanley, Amy Dru. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Stern, Steve J. The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico, University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Stoler, Ann L. “Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Empires,” American Ethnologist
16 (1992).

Stryker, Susan. “Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity,” Radical History Review, 100 (Winter 2008): 145-57.

Tatar, Maria. Lustmord: Sexual murder in Weimar Germany, Princeton University Press, 1995.

Tosh, John. A Man’s Place Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007.

Tosh, John. “Masculinities in an Industrializing Society: Britain, 1800–1914,” Journal of British Studies, 44 2(April 2005): 330-42.

Uberoi, Patricia, ed. Social Reform, Sexuality and the State, Sage, 1996.

Walkowitz, Judith. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London, University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Walkowitz, Judith. Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London, Yale University Press, 2012.

Wanhalla, Angela. “To ‘Better the Breed of Men’: women and eugenics in New Zealand, 1900–1935,” Women’s History Review, 16 2(Apr 2007): 163-82.

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, Honor and Violence in the Old South, New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

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Use the comment space below to suggest additions to this reading list. Periodically, those suggestions will be debated by the gender history working group at Florida State University, and the list will be updated. Ideally, though, readers will take a bibliography, refine and remake it to their specific research or teaching interests, and then submit it back to Projects in History, with a brief explanation of the rationale behind their choices and changes. All authors of new lists will have the option of attaching a brief biography and contact information to their reading list (see example on the “About” page). The initial version of the list presented on this page was complied by Charles Upchurch, with significant additions by Katherine Mooney, Laurie Wood, and Annika Culver, and is indebted to work done by the Women’s and Gender History Program at Rutgers University.

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