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Description This module considers the history of women's role in both the private as well as the public sphere and examines the experience of women 'on the margins'. Students on this module complete a research essay instead of a final examination. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Critically evaluate developments in academic writing on women with reference to the difference between women’s history, feminist history and gender historys history, feminist history and gender history 2. Critically analyse the ways in which social, economic and political factors shaped women s lives in period 1790-1915 3. Demonstrate an informed view regarding the ways in which women accessed the public sphere of politics and employment and how society's expectations of women's roles in society shifted at certain seminal points in the periods 4. Critically reflect on the importance of class in the study of women's lives in the period 5. Appraise the ways in which society dealt with women who failed to conform to nineteenth century expectations regarding appropriate female roles 6. Carry out an original research project based on primary historical sources which contributes to knowledge in the field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and
Learning Activities IntroductionUnit 1 : Women’s History, Feminist History and Gender HistoryUnit 2 Research: Getting startedPart 1: Women in the Private SphereUnit 3: DomesticityUnit 4: ReligionPart 2: Women, Education and WorkUnit 5: PhilanthropyUnit 6: EducationUnit 7 Industrialisation and Women’s WorkUnit 8: Women and Work in IrelandUnit 9: EmigrationPart 3: Developing the Research ProjectUnit 10: Literature ReviewUnit 11: Negotiating Archival SourcesPart 4: Women on the MarginsUnit 12: MotherhoodUnit 13: ProstitutionUnit 14: Poverty and CriminalityPart 5: Women in the public sphereUnit 15: Radicalism and utopian discourses of the late eighteenth, early nineteenth centuryUnit 16: Politics formal and informal IUnit 17: Suffrage in IrelandUnit 18: Women and nationalism in nineteenth century IrelandUnit 19: Women and nationalism 1900-1921Unit 20: Women and WarPart 6: The Research PaperUnit 21: Writing the Research Paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Programme or List of Programmes |
BA | BA in Humanities |
BADIP | Diploma in Humanities |
BAEH | BA in English & History |
BASM | BA Single Module |
EHDIP | Diploma in English and History |
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