A ten week, 12-point course to be held at The University Centre, Hastings (see map, below)
Starting 7th October 2006 Ending 9th December 2006

Saturdays, 10:30--12:30

Tutor: Helena Wojtczak [author of Women of Victorian Sussex and Railwaywomen]

Helena's Women's History Site

To enrol on this course please contact:

Centre for Continuing Education (CCE)
The Sussex Institute
Essex House
University of Sussex
Falmer
BN1 9QQ
tel: 01273 877888
EMAIL THE CCE

Short description

Women's history has been neglected and is different to that of men. This course examines women's lives in the past, mainly using records and resources we can find within Sussex.


Course description

This course is for students interested in how the occupational, domestic, legal, financial, sexual and social status of women has changed over the past 200 years. We will examine how and why the position of women has altered so radically over that time, who and what were the agents of that change, and what opposition they met.

As far as possible, preference will be given to using resources from the local area. We will look at some Sussex women who defied convention, and will evaluate the part that some individual Sussex women have played in bringing about change in women’s status.

Finally we will discuss why women’s history has been neglected in the past.

Each session will take the form of a short talk by the tutor to introduce a theme, followed by a group discussion of that subject. Students are encouraged to study between sessions if possible, to gain some background knowledge of the theme in question.

Students will produce two pieces of written work, each of them on a theme within the subject of women’s history; the theme may be of the students’ own choosing. The longer of the two pieces must comprise 1,000 words.

Course learning outcomes.


By the end of the course, students will be:-

Familiar with the competing ideologies about women’s status.

Familiar with the broad overview of the changes in women’s status over the past 200 years.

Familiar with the methodology of women’s history research

Teaching and learning methods


Tutor-led discussions and debates

Students’ own presentations followed by discussion of the issues raised

Reading the set books

Studying selected texts and handouts provided by the tutor

Tutor support for individuals’ research projects


Assessment


Two pieces of work are required, one short the other longer.

The shorter piece may comprise of the notes of a presentation given to the class. The longer will comprise of a piece of original, independent research of 1,000 words.





The University Centre is where the box saying "A21" is shown on Havelock Road. It is just metres from the railway station and almost all buses bound for Hastings town centre stop right outside.


HASTINGS PRESS
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Students taking this course are expected to produce two pieces of work, one short and one long, on two aspects of women's lives in England. Here are some suggestions: women's domestic history, working women, the history of marriage, the suffrage movement, the suffragette movement, women workers in the First World War, women workers between the wars, women workers in the Second World War, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, the Equal Pay Act 1970, home life, marriage, sexuality, lesbianism, lesbian separatists, women artists, individual feminists, the feminist movement, the women's liberation movement, the changes in women's lives between 1800 and 2000, women and technology, women and religion, women writers, women poets, Georgian women, Victorian women, Edwardian women, flower-power women, hippie women, flappers, the first women who voted, women of achievement, immigrant women, black women, Jewish women, catholic women, Greenham Common women, uses of womyn, wimmin, women's emancipation, women sculptors, women painters, domestic violence to men, domestic violence by men, changes in girls' education 1800-2000, childhood for girls, women teachers, the history of nursing, factory women, Lancashire cotton mills, fisherwomen, railwaywomen, women and sport, women's football, women's cricket, women tennis players, women and higher education, women in domestic service, women cooks, women artists, women painters, women models, women pop stars, women singers, women and alcohol, women and drug abuse, homeless women, tramp women, women addicts, women and suicide, prostitution, brothels, madams, nuns, women priests, women vicars, women vergers, deaconesses. You could of course choose to do a project on an individual woman. Some suggestions: Emmeline pankhurst, Mary Sophia Allen, Christabel Pankhurst, Adela Pankhurst, The Pankhurst Family, Marianne North, Barbra Bodichon, Aphra Behn, Barbara Castle, Shirley Williams, Mrs Thatcher, Millicent Fawcett, Annie Besant, George Eliot, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Dorothea Dix, Elizabeth Blackwell.