HIST 24401 - Sex and Power in Colonial America

Course Credit: 1
(WGSS)
This seminar traces the social and cultural evolution of colonial North America through an examination of sex, gender, and power. Organized around themes such as explorations and encounters; gender and culture in New England; sex, desire, and consequence; and rape and sexual power, this seminar adopts a trans-Atlantic framework to understand the experiences of Africans and Native Americans alongside the French, Spanish, Dutch, and English colonists. Along the way students will gain a sense of colonial North America as a turbulent and chaotic world. Additionally, we will investigate historiographical and theoretical debates concerning sex and sexuality, gender, race, and power in the colonial era and later. [HSS]