Unit HISTORY OF WOMEN AND GENDER HISTORY
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- A003097
- Curriculum
- Storia europea
- Teacher
- Erminia Irace
- Teachers
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- Erminia Irace
- Emanuela Costantini (Codocenza)
- Stefania Zucchini (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 12 ore - Erminia Irace
- 12 ore (Codocenza) - Emanuela Costantini
- 12 ore (Codocenza) - Stefania Zucchini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline storiche, filosofiche, antropologiche e sociologiche
- Sector
- M-STO/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- TThe course aims to provide an introduction to the main lines of research that have focused on women's and gender history. The topic will be addressed by: a) analyzing some of the most important historical research methodologies that have investigated women's history; b) examining the international historiographical landscape which, starting in the second half of the 20th century, led to the development of research dedicated to women's history from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age and to the construction of the concept of “gender history” and its application in academic research.
- Reference texts
- Reference texts:
1) a choice of one of two contributions:
a) Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Introduzione, in Storia delle donne. Il medioevo, a cura di Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1994, pp. 3-17, to be studied with Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Le Moyen Âge, in Ving-cinq ans après. Les femmes au rendez-vous de l’histoire, Under the direction of Enrica Asquer, Anna Bellavitis and Isabelle Chabot, Rome, Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2022, pp. 47-50: https://books.openedition.org/efr/36067 ;
b) Joan Kelly-Gadol, Did Women Have a Renaissance?, in Becoming Visible: Women in European History, ed. by R. Bridenthal and C. Koonz, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1977, pp. 137-64.
2) a choice of one of two contributions:
a) Gabriella Zarri, La formazione della “storia delle donne”, in Gabriella Zarri, La memoria di lei. Storia delle donne, storia di genere, Torino, SEI, 1996, pp. 26-58;
b) Ida Fazio, Introduzione. Genere, politica, storia: a 25 anni dalla prima traduzione italiana de Il genere: un’utile categoria di analisi storica, in Joan W. Scott, Genere, politica, storia, a cura di Ida Fazio, Roma, Viella, 2013, pp. 7-27: https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/3080593
3) a choice of one of two contributions::
a) Maria Rosaria Stabili, Il genere come categoria analitica nella storiografia italiana, in «Ricerche di Storia politica», 4 (2015), pp. 59-72;
b) Silvana Patriarca, Il sesso delle nazioni: genere e passioni nella storiografia sul nazionalismo, in «Contemporanea», 2 (2007), pp. 353-360. to be studied with Elisabetta Vezzosi, Il genere: una categoria sufficiente per l'analisi storica?, in «Contemporanea», 2 (2010), pp. 311-316.
4) Reading texts: choose one of the following three:
a) Natalie Zemon Davis, La storia delle donne in transizione. Il caso europeo, in «DWF, Donnawomanfemme», 3 (1977), pp. 7-33;
b) Joan W. Scott, Il “genere”: un’utile categoria di analisi storica, in Joan W. Scott, Genere, politica, storia, a cura di Ida Fazio, Roma, Viella, 2013, pp. 31-63;
c) Gianna Pomata, La storia delle donne: una questione di confine, in Il mondo contemporaneo, X, Gli strumenti della ricerca, a cura di Giovanni De Luna, Peppino Ortoleva, Marco Revelli, Nicola Tranfaglia, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1983, pp. 1434-1464.
Papers 1 a) (Klapisch-Zuber 1994), 1 b) (Kelly-Gadol), 2 a) (Zarri), 3 a) (Stabili), 3 b) (Patriarca), 4 a) (Zemon Davis), 4 b) (Scott), 4 c) (Pomata) are available in pdf format on the Unistudium platform, on the page dedicated to this course.
This program is also valid for non-attending students.
Students with disabilities and / or with SLD, after consultation with the teacher, can request any didactic materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, exercises), provided if necessary in advance of the lessons, as well as the use of other facilitating technological tools in the study phase. For general information, consult the University Services on the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department Coordinator (prof.ssa A. Di Pilla). - Educational objectives
- The teaching (which is carried out in co-teaching mode: 24 hours by Prof. Zucchini, 12 hours by Prof. Irace and 12 hours by Prof. Costantini) enriches the didactic offer of the CdS due to its interdisciplinary organization and the topics addressed, concerning the history of women and the gender history. Students will deepen their historical and historiographic knowledge and skills by learning to move with a transversal approach. The main knowledge acquired will concern the main issues concerning the history of women and gender in the medieval age and the early modern age. The main skills acquired will be the ability to develop logical-critical and historiographic reasoning in a diachronic manner, which will also enable them to develop awareness of the issues concerning the current position of women in society.
- Prerequisites
- As this is a master's level course, it is important to have a good or at least reasonable knowledge of the main chronological periods, events, and issues relating to European history in the medieval, modern, and contemporary eras. The ability to use appropriate historical-critical language is important. The same prerequisites are also required for students who take the exam as non-attending students.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons accompanied by use of powerpoint.
Students with disabilities and/or with DSA, after consultation with the lecturer, may request any teaching materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, workbooks), provided if necessary in advance of the lectures, as well as the use of other technological facilitation tools in the study phase. For general information, see the University Services at https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and get in touch with the Contact Person for the Department (Prof. A. Di Pilla) - Other information
- a) further information will be provided during lessons;
b) information and materials useful for exam preparation can be found on the Unistudium platform: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php on the page dedicated to this teaching.
Students with disabilities and/or DSA: for any information about the University's services, please visit https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and get in touch with the Contact Person for the Department (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Learning verification modality
- Oral exam (approximately 20 minutes) on the topics covered in the course. The exam aims to assess, in particular, students' critical and interpretative skills, demonstrating their good understanding and ability to present the topics analyzed in a complex and reasoned manner.
Attention: students who cannot attend lessons (e.g. working students) and students with disabilities and / or SLDs must contact the teachers via email (at the address stefania.zucchini@unipg.it; erminia.irace@unipg.it; emanuela.costantini@unipg.it) at the beginning of the lessons in order to agree on the procedures for carrying out the exam.
Students with disabilities and/or with DSA who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, for the purpose of conducting the tests may take advantage of the compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies provided by the regulations, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of the tests. For information see https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and get in touch with the Department's Contact Person for Disability and DSA (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Extended program
- The course intends to represent an introduction to the knowledge of the main lines of research that have themed the history of women and gender. First, some of the most important historical research methodologies that have investigated the history of women will be analyzed. Secondly, specific case studies concerning Europe in the Middle Ages, the early modern age and the contemporary age will be illustrated.
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