Women, Gender & Sexuality
In recent years, gender has become increasingly central to historical scholarship of every period and region, and courses in this thematic area examine the ways in which gender has shaped of social and political hierarchies within and across specific societies and times. At Stony Brook, faculty in American, European, Latin American, and Asian history do gender-related research and teach courses in this field, allowing many opportunities for comparison across cultures and times. This field is especially popular among graduate students, many of whom also complete the Women’s Studies Certificate program while completing their doctorates. Topics might include: technologies of reproduction, discourses of sexuality, the intersection of class, race and gender in social movements, the sexual division of labor, and the family.