May 01, 2024

2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog

2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

HIST 4379 - Sex and Violence in the Old South

Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0

Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description
This course uses a gender studies approach to examine concepts such as gentility, civility, and honor, along with the exalted but helpless position of the ‘southern belle.’ The course will also discuss riverboat gamblers, the raping of slaves by the masters, plantation justice, slave breeding and slave insurrection. The course explores the role of men and women, white, black, and native American in the context of slave society. Additionally, the course analyzes gender definitions, violence, social roles and socially normed behavior.