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Women in Italy: Studies
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Studies of the history and cultural activities of women in 20th Century Italy have tended to concentrate either on the years of War and Fascism, or else on the feminism of the late 1960s and 1970s. The intervening period has come under much less scrutiny. It is the aim of this conference to bring together specialists from a variety of disciplines to develop a deeper understanding of the social and cultural history in those years of upheaval and readjustment.
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Athena Unbound focuses mainly on college, graduate and professional experiences of women in the sciences. The authors offer a fairly accessible examination of critiques of the pipeline theory of getting more women into science. Interviews ... offer a number of examples and closes with an international comparisons of women in the sciences. The book ends with recommendations for changes at the collegiate/department level to facilitate women's involvement and continued participation. This chapter could serve as a useful discussion tool for students to think about barriers for women and how they can be addressed and removed. The Intro and Chapters 1-3 present accessible readings on the issues surrounding women's entry into the fields.
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By the end of the course students should have increased their knowledge of the history of Italian women since 1860. They should ... have improved their presentational, analytical, research and writing skills through seminar work and essays.
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The extended liberal arts offered to men, including arithmetic, geometry, music, and astrology, were frequently excluded from women s curricula. The study of theology was explicitly forbidden to women on largely Biblical grounds.
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