1. Gender, History and politics in Britain

2. Carys Howells C.howells.1@warwick.ac.uk Room H335
Office Hours: Thursdays and Fridays 10am (week 2 onwards – no office hours during reading week or holidays)

3. Module Introduction Nearly 200 year time span.
Gender: ‘the state of being male or female, typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones’.
Societal norms – their impact on relations with others and perception of world and place within it.

4. Gender in the press
Gender Pay Gap Widens to £11,600 among UK Managers’ (International Business Times, 2017)
'I'm a clever, beautiful Cambridge medical student...so why shouldn't I flaunt my body as a Miss England finalist?’ (Daily Mail, 2014)
‘John Lewis gender neutral clothing labels faces public backlash’. (Independent, 2017)

5. Structure of Module 21 teaching weeks.
1 lecture and 1 seminar per week.
Tutorials for long essays at student request.

6. Seminars
Please stick to your allocated seminar time, any changes must be arranged with History Office.
Readings can be accessed via module web page – timetable – seminar page.
Mix primary and secondary material.
Structure changes from week to week.
if absent.

9. Reading and Sources
Seminar readings for each week can be found on the respective web pages under the heading ‘key texts’.
‘Further Reading’ also provided as a starting point for assignment preparation.
Electronic resources also available via web site:
Bibliography of British and Irish History
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Nineteenth-century British Newspapers
Census of England and Wales
Women Writers Online
Old Bailey Online
Modern Records Centre
Pathe News archive
Most archives/museums have digitised collections (see V&A for e.g.)

10. This week’s seminar… introduction to gender history
Key Readings:
John Arnold, 'Is the rise of gender history 'hiding' women from history once again?', History in Focus, 8 (2005)
Joanne Bailey, 'Is the rise of gender history 'hiding' women from history once again?', History in Focus, 8 (2005)
Key questions:
What is women's history? And gender history?
Does the rise of 'gender history' once again marginalise the contribution of women?
Why study gender history?