1. An Introduction to gender History

2. Introductions
Does your name have a special meaning or were you named after someone special?
If you were a fictional character, who would you be and why?
If you could go anywhere in the world where would it be and why?
If your house was burning down and you could only save three objects which would they be?
What is your pet hate? (apart from ice breakers)?

3. Brainstorm: What do you associate with the term ‘gender history’.
Ideas and concepts
Theorists and writers
Historical figures
Places and events

5. Next Week… Gender and History
Group 1
John Tosh, Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family and Empire (Taylor and Francis, 2004), chapter 1 'The Making of Manhood and the Uses of History' pp [e-book]
Mrinalini Sinha, 'Giving masculinity a history', Gender and History, 11 (1999)
Group 2
Jane Rendall, 'Uneven developments: women's history, gender history and feminist history in Great Britain', in Karen Offen, Ruth Roach Pierson and Jane Rendall (eds), Writing Women's History pp [e-book]
Kathryn Gleadle, 'The Imagined Communities of Women's History: current debates and emerging themes, a rhizomatic approach', Women's History Review, 4 (2013) pp
Group 3
Richard A. Kaye, 'The New Other Victorians: The Success (and failure) of queer theory in nineteenth-century British Studies', Victorian Literature and Culture, 42:4 (2014), pp
Sean Brady, Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain , (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) chapter 1 'History' [e-book].