![[Contents]](../../images/conten.gif)
|
|
| Week | Lecture |
|---|---|
| 1 | A discussion of concepts and approaches underpinning the course referring to constructions of 'public' and 'private' in historiography, literary and cultural criticism. An introduction to cultural history. |
| 2 | Defining the Domestic Sphere |
| 3 | Women and politics I: the Duchess of Devonshire and the Westminster election of 1784 |
| 4 | Women and politics II : the Queen Caroline affair |
| 5 | The Female Body: motherhood, menstruation and medicalization |
| 6 | Women and Religion |
| 7 | Abolitionism, race and the politics of consumption |
| 8 | Jane Austen, Mansfield Park |
| 9 | Women and Popular Culture: women and the theatre; actresses; writers and audiences, private theatricals; melodrama. |
| 10 | Women and criminality |
| 11 | Domestic Service |
| 12 | Sexuality: searching for Sappho? |
| 13 | Fashioning the Female |
|
| Unit Outline |
Staff | Film List |