HIST 372 Women and Family in Chinese History

2021-2022 Catalog

This course will provide for an examination of women’s life and women’s roles within Chinese family from antiquity to the modern period.  Viewing gender as a historical category in analyzing changes of Chinese society and culture, the course will cover the following topics: property and inheritance between men and women; household economies; marriage; divorce and maternal roles; reproduction, fertility and infanticide; female chastity and Confucian ritual-propriety; and women’s social networking and the formation of sisterhood.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

Same as IS 372

Prerequisite

WRIT 102 or WRIT 201