2023-2024 Catalog

HIST 372 Women and Family in Chinese History

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