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Gender, Culture & Society in Italy
Study + Internship in Florence Program
Florence, Italy
Dates: early Jan 2026 - late Apr 2026
Gender, Culture & Society in Italy
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: CEA CAPA Florence Center
Location: Florence, Italy
Primary Subject Area: Sociology
Instruction in: English
Course Code: SOC350
Transcript Source: University of New Haven
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Prerequisites: One 200 level course or two 100 level courses in a relevant field
DESCRIPTION
This course explores Italian history, society and culture through the notion of gender in its enmeshment with categories such as sex, race, ethnicity, class, nation, and sexuality. Through scholarly essays, artworks, theoretical texts, films, documentaries, literary works, and newspaper articles, students will be exposed to a wide array of ideas, debates, and discourses that have shaped and still shape both the construction and the perception of gender in the Italian context. Some of the issues this course will address are: the representation of gendered identity in Renaissance artworks; imposed and perceived gender roles in the fascist era; theories and practices of Italian feminism; the uneasy emergence of LGBTQ+ issues on the public arena; and the role gender plays in the construction of postcolonial subjectivity.