To introduce to a methodologically and thematically heterogeneous field of inquiry;
Examine the dominant historiographical approach to political, social and and economic history that has privileged microhistorical aspects, conjunctures and structures in which the female role has been marginal or absent;
Develop critical analytical skills on the nature and possibilities of women's own history, methodological issues and the status of sources;
Conduct a critical-conceptual discourse with respect to the redefinition of gender history as the social organization of gender relations, gender relations and the power exercised by gender differentiation and with respect to the more recete concept of intersectionality.