Università Roma Tre

The course will adopt an international and comparative approach to women’s history in the Western World. It will encompass both methodological issues, using tools such as the biography or the category of gender, and the study of the evolution of women’s social position and of the process of their emancipation in the contemporary age. Students will be able to analyze themes and events of their interest through discussions and individual or group presentations during classes, and choose most of the texts (available also in English) for the final exam.

Two volumes chosen among the following ones:


Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women’s Movement, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1997

Karen Offen, European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000

Daniela Rossini, Donne e propaganda internazionale. Percorsi femminili tra Italia e Stati Uniti nell’eta’ della Grande Guerra, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2015

Alessia Lirosi, Libere di sapere. Il diritto delle donne all’istruzione dal Cinquecento al mondo contemporaneo, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2015

Elda Guerra, Il dilemma della pace. Femministe e pacifiste sulla scena internazionale, 1914-1939, Viella, Roma 2014

Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003 (available also in English)

Georges Duby e Michelle Perrot, Storia delle donne in Occidente, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1992: 8 saggi a scelta compresi nei due volumi relativi a “L’Ottocento” e “Il Novecento” (available also in English).

Fiamma Lussana, Il movimento femminista in Italia. Esperienze, storie, memorie, Carocci, Roma 2012

and also one of the following essays: Gisela Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, in Gender and History, vol 1 N.1, Spring 1989, pp. 7-30; or Joan W. Scott, “Il genere. Un’utile categoria di analisi storica”, in Altre storie. La critica femminista della storia, a cura di P. Di Cori, Clueb, Bologna 1996, pp. 307-347.