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B026185 - HISTORY OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN IN THE CONTEMPORARY AGE
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Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
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Course program
Academic Year 2020-21
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (FORLILPSI)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-STO/04 - CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
24/02/2021 ⇒ 05/06/2021
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Children, young people and women have been often neglected in general history. But without them, general history cannot be told as such. This course focus on experts and institutions for them and on the history of the family in the XIXth-XXth centuries.The relevance of the historical perspective for a better understanding and awareness of the present with special relevance for the aim of this curriculum.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
A) P. Willson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2010, non chpt. 2 e 8, and .
Storia della famiglia, fasc. mon. "Bollettino di Clio", n.s., 13, luglio 2020 https://www.clio92.org/bollettini/ (pp. 9-96) OR
Sandro Bellassai, L’invenzione della virilità. Politica e immaginario maschile nell’Italia contemporanea, Carocci., Roma 2012, pp.181
Choose two essays among the following:
B) Save the Children, Le equilibriste. La maternità in Italia 2020, https://s3.savethechildren.it/public/files/uploads/pubblicazioni/le-equilibriste-la-maternita-italia-nel-2020.pdf; or one of the previous annual Report by Save the children since 2016 (on line) http://images.savethechildren.it/IT/f/img_pubblicazioni/img294_b.pdf?_ga=1.177695525.1242585949.1462801475,
P. Guarnieri, Dall'accoglienza alla cura. La riforma sanitaria nel brefotrofio degl'Innocenti di Firenze 1890-1918, Medicina e Storia, IV, 2004, 57-94.
P. Guarnieri, Un piccolo essere perverso. Il bambino nella cultura scientifica italiana tra '800 e '900,"Contemporanea", IX, 2006, pp. 253-284 (on line);
P. Guarnieri, Pericolosi e in pericolo: alle origini del Tribunale dei minori in Italia, "Contemporanea", XI, 2, 2008, pp. 195 -219 (on line)
G. De Michele, "Un'inguaribile incapacità di reazione al nuovo ambiente di vita". Bambini meridionali al Nord e classi differenziali negli anni '50 e
'60, "Rivista sperimentale di freniatria", 134, 2010, pp. 12-22 (on line).
Silvana Patriarca, Fear of Small Numbers: «Brown Babies» in Postwar Italy, Contemporanea, 18, 2015, pp. 537-567.
C) Not attending students have to choose 1 among the followings :
A. Badino, Strade in salita. Figlie e figli dell'immigrazione meridionale al Nord, Carocci, Roma 2012.
A. Frances, Saving Normal. An insider's Revolts Against Out of Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, Harper Collins publ, 2013, only I Part.
Storia della famiglia, fasc. mon. "Bollettino di Clio", n.s., 13, luglio 2020 https://www.clio92.org/bollettini/ (pp. 9-96) OR
Sandro Bellassai, L’invenzione della virilità. Politica e immaginario maschile nell’Italia contemporanea, Carocci., Roma 2012, pp.181
Choose two essays among the following:
B) Save the Children, Le equilibriste. La maternità in Italia 2020, https://s3.savethechildren.it/public/files/uploads/pubblicazioni/le-equilibriste-la-maternita-italia-nel-2020.pdf; or one of the previous annual Report by Save the children since 2016 (on line) http://images.savethechildren.it/IT/f/img_pubblicazioni/img294_b.pdf?_ga=1.177695525.1242585949.1462801475,
P. Guarnieri, Dall'accoglienza alla cura. La riforma sanitaria nel brefotrofio degl'Innocenti di Firenze 1890-1918, Medicina e Storia, IV, 2004, 57-94.
P. Guarnieri, Un piccolo essere perverso. Il bambino nella cultura scientifica italiana tra '800 e '900,"Contemporanea", IX, 2006, pp. 253-284 (on line);
P. Guarnieri, Pericolosi e in pericolo: alle origini del Tribunale dei minori in Italia, "Contemporanea", XI, 2, 2008, pp. 195 -219 (on line)
G. De Michele, "Un'inguaribile incapacità di reazione al nuovo ambiente di vita". Bambini meridionali al Nord e classi differenziali negli anni '50 e
'60, "Rivista sperimentale di freniatria", 134, 2010, pp. 12-22 (on line).
Silvana Patriarca, Fear of Small Numbers: «Brown Babies» in Postwar Italy, Contemporanea, 18, 2015, pp. 537-567.
C) Not attending students have to choose 1 among the followings :
A. Badino, Strade in salita. Figlie e figli dell'immigrazione meridionale al Nord, Carocci, Roma 2012.
A. Frances, Saving Normal. An insider's Revolts Against Out of Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, Harper Collins publ, 2013, only I Part.
Learning Objectives
knowledge: learning perspectives of the discipline which are relevant to
the student's training;
ability: developing an appropriate independent judgment and awareness
of the variety of approaches in understanding the past,
relating to the present.
skills: critical ability in the analysis and presentation of primary and
secondary sources
the student's training;
ability: developing an appropriate independent judgment and awareness
of the variety of approaches in understanding the past,
relating to the present.
skills: critical ability in the analysis and presentation of primary and
secondary sources
Prerequisites
basic knowledge of contemporary history;
Teaching Methods
Lectures and seminars with presentation and discussion of sources and research projects (movies,
iconographical and archival sources). Students are encouraged to have an active participation, and to create their own proposal.
iconographical and archival sources). Students are encouraged to have an active participation, and to create their own proposal.
Further information
Any changes will be communicated during the course and in the e-learning
platform . Students have to register to it. Articles are usually avaiable by the university library system SBA or in moodle
platform . Students have to register to it. Articles are usually avaiable by the university library system SBA or in moodle
Type of Assessment
final oral exams and seminar presentations during the course will be considered, evaluating knowledge, abilities and judgement autonomy, expertises on sources.
Course program
The course consists of a historiographical introduction on various approaches and methodologies in contemporary history with a focus on issues of cure and
care. It intend to propose a path which is relevant to this Degree, from late XIXth C to XXth C on the interactions between the new expertizes and specialized institutions for early childhood and for families , the
profound changes in the traditional ones and the establishment of new institutions (OMNI and the Italian Juvenile
Court), professionals and volunteer. Protagonists, events and
experiences will be explained by the specific case of Florence (the
Innocenti Institut, the Umberto I, the School for Special teachers etc..),
that is internationally known and yet in many ways still unexplored
precisely in the XXth C.
care. It intend to propose a path which is relevant to this Degree, from late XIXth C to XXth C on the interactions between the new expertizes and specialized institutions for early childhood and for families , the
profound changes in the traditional ones and the establishment of new institutions (OMNI and the Italian Juvenile
Court), professionals and volunteer. Protagonists, events and
experiences will be explained by the specific case of Florence (the
Innocenti Institut, the Umberto I, the School for Special teachers etc..),
that is internationally known and yet in many ways still unexplored
precisely in the XXth C.