AHA Session 19
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship 1
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender 1
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship 1
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender 1
Friday, January 3, 2025: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Gramercy East (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair:
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
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Session Abstract
Teaching a feminist premodern history has never been more important, while the crisis in the humanities has put teaching both feminist history and premodern history more generally at risk. This is especially true at state institutions that do not have large endowments and increasingly have curricular decisions dictated by politicians. Nevertheless, most students are educated in state institutions, and thus premodern historians are often their only contact with longer historical trends that either have shaped, or challenge, modern conceptions. In the wake of legislative attacks on Gender and Women’s Studies programs and the humanities more generally, premodern history classes can also be the only place that many students get exposure to the basics of gender studies and to the variety of ways that women participated in early societies. This roundtable will discuss the importance, and challenges, of teaching a feminist premodern history in non-flagship state institutions in different parts of the United States and at different types of state institutions, including community colleges and regional state schools.
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