Cours de version master (semestre 2) de C. Beaufils (première partie du semestre : cours assuré par M. Folliot).
- Enseignant.e: Cecile Beaufils
- Enseignant.e: William Slauter
- Enseignant.e: Fabrice Bensimon
“No cause can be won between dinner and tea, and most of us who were married had to work with one hand tied behind us”. Ce souvenir de la suffragette Hannah Mitchell (1872-1956) sur son expérience de femme mariée et de militante au début du XXe siècle nous renvoie à la condition des femmes dans la Grande-Bretagne de cette époque. On a longtemps pensé que la sphère privée du foyer leur était dévolue, et qu’elles n’intervenaient pas dans l’espace public. Depuis une quarantaine d’années, l’historiographie a néanmoins remis en cause ces postulats. Certes, les femmes étaient privées du droit de vote et exclues de nombreux métiers et de secteurs entiers d’activité. Mais elles jouaient souvent un rôle essentiel dans les décisions familiales, ainsi que dans celles des petites entreprises et des commerces. Elles étaient omniprésentes dans le textile et encore plus parmi les domestiques. Nombre d’entre elles s’impliquèrent dans le radicalisme, pour l’abolition de l’esclavage, dans divers mouvements associatifs et politiques, puis dans les conseils d’école et les mobilisations pour le droit de vote. Bref, la réalité des pratiques sociales et culturelles s’éloignait souvent de l’idéal bourgeois et des normes diffusées par la littérature prescriptive. Par l’action de militantes comme Hannah Mitchell et tant d’autres, les rôles sociaux qu’assumaient les femmes et les hommes changeaient.
Ce cours abordera différentes questions :
- la construction d’une histoire des femmes et du genre
- les femmes et l’histoire de la famille
- les mobilisations politiques des femmes
- le genre du travail et les travailleuses (ouvrières du textile, domestiques)
- les « sphères séparées » : forces et limites d’un modèle
- débats et combats autour de la sexualité et de la prostitution
- genre et masculinité
Bibliographie indicative
Davidoff, Leonore, Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850, Chicago, 1987
Griffin, Emma, Bread Winner. An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy, New Haven and London, 2020.
Light Alison, Mrs Woolf and the servants, London, 2007.
Liddington, Jill and Jill Norris, One hand tied behind us: the rise of the women’s suffrage movement, London, 1978.
Midgley, Clare, Women against slavery: the British Campaigns, 1780-1870, London, 1992
MANION, Jen, Female Husbands: A Trans History, Cambridge, 2020.
MITCHELL, Hannah, The Hard Way Up. The Autobiography of Hannah Mitchell, Suffragette and Rebel, London, 1968
Roberts Elizabeth, A Woman’s Place: An oral history of Working-Class Women, 1890-1940, Oxford, 984
Rose, Sonya O., Limited Livelihoods. Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England, London, 1992.
Rowbotham, Sheila, Hidden from History: 300 years of women’s oppression and the fight against it, London, 1973
Schwartz, Laura, Feminism and the Servant Problem: Class and Domestic Labour in the British Women Suffrage Movement, Cambridge, 2019
Strange Julie-Marie, Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865-1914, Cambridge, 2015.
Taylor, Barbara, Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge (Mass.), 1983.
Cet enseignement est dispensé le jeudi de 9h à 11h à Serpente, uniquement au premier semestre. Le cours est en anglais ; les non-spécialistes peuvent composer en français. Deux ou trois séances seront organisées autour de visites (archives, expositions, musées) ou de conférences. Nous tâcherons d’organiser un voyage d’études de trois ou quatre jours en Grande-Bretagne.
Contact : fabrice.bensimon@sorbonne-universite.fr
- Enseignant.e: Fabrice Bensimon
La structure informationnelle de l’énoncé invite à s’interroger sur les rapports entre la structure ou forme d’un énoncé et l’organisation des informations apportées, ainsi que sur les notions d’information ancienne et nouvelle, de thématisation, de topicalisation et de focalisation.
- Enseignant.e: Christelle Lacassain
The first semester of this year-long seminar will seek to introduce students to some of the major historiographical debates within a range of subfields of the literature of twentieth-century US history. Our readings will be drawn from high impact works of historical scholarship; class discussions each week will take shape around a consideration of the historiographical, theoretical, methodological, and political stakes of these works. One of our main objectives will be to historicize the present—that is to say, to excavate the structures and subterranean histories that help to determine the political possibilities of our time. Another will be to investigate the methodologies and theoretical tools available to historians working on twentieth-century US history. Students in the seminar will be expected to contribute their thoughts each week to an online forum and to participate actively in class.
The second semester will be organized around methodological and theoretical issues related to research in the social sciences. A selection of readings to be determined collectively (at the conclusion of the first semester) will be used to offer examples of how scholars develop theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches for exploring a range of social, political, and cultural issues in the contemporary United States. Students will examine the relevance of such works to their own research projects, which they will present to the class in a workshop setting.
- Enseignant.e: Andrew Diamond
This seminar will seek to introduce students to the critical issues and analytical possibilities of an era that we will refer to as “the long 1980s.” Our investigation will range between the early 1970s, when the country was reeling from the Watergate scandal, stagflation, a generalized state of urban crisis, and the fall of Saigon, and the mid 1990s, when Democratic President Bill Clinton signed laws that dramatically cut welfare programs and greatly increased funding for the construction of prisons and the enhancement of law enforcement capacities. But at the heart of our reflection lies the so-called “Reagan Revolution” and the neoliberal turn it managed to bring to fruition—an event that not only transformed approaches to governance, but also the ways in which Americans make sense of their world.
Public policies, political movements, and political discourse will of course concern us, but our objective will be to understand how political events and circumstances were lived and understood at the grassroots by average residents. We will take an interdisciplinary approach that will seek to fit the political, cultural, social, and economic into the same frame in order to better understand the political cultures that have shaped the ideas, sensibilities, political activities, and passions of urban, suburban, and rural communities. Methodologically speaking, the class will seek to bring historical and sociological scholarship into dialogue with a broad range of primary sources, including extracts from movies, television shows, music videos, newscasts, popular novels, comic books, underground and mainstream newspapers and magazines, etc.
- Enseignant.e: Andrew Diamond
Initiation aux méthodes disciplinaires en master recherche études anglophones
- Enseignant.e: Cecile Beaufils
- Enseignant.e: Carolin Gorgen
- Enseignant.e: Franziska Heimburger Gabriel
- Enseignant.e: William Slauter
Academic writing for master students
- Enseignant.e: Florence Bourgne