Women in Early America The seminar deals with the lives of women in social, religious and cultural contexts in North America from the 17th to the early 19th century. From the Salem Witch Trials to Republican Motherhood, from queerness in Jamestown to outspoken Quaker women, we will also discuss the (often male) structures that shaped ideas about gender. The class presents a broad scope of the gendered experience. We will look at free and enslaved women, in settler societies as well as in indigenous communities, in war and revolution.
- Trainer/in: Charlotte Lerg