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HIST 114 SC - Women and Gender in the Wider Mediterranean (ca.1300-1800)


This course examines recent literature on women’s property rights and legal agency, family practices, and sexual cultures in different ethnic and religious communities of the Mediterranean. Topics may include: divorce culture in medieval Cairo; women’s court cases in rural Anatolia; patrilineal kinship structures in Renaissance Florence; dowry exchange on the Aegean Islands; women’s property rights in Muslim Spain; male same-sex relations in the Ottoman Empire. Focus is on secondary literature.

Instructor: J. Sperling
Course Credit: 1.0


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