HIS 357 - Gender in Total War

3 Credits

Students examine the transformation of gender roles during World Wars I and II and explore in particular challenges to ideals of masculine courage, valor, and military efficacy in the face of mechanized warfare as well as the ways in which the wars drew women into industrial workplaces and onto the killing fields. Illustrations of these dramatic upheavals in European and American conceptions of gender are examined in secondary histories, film, literature, and memoirs.
Prerequisites: Any HIS course