GWSS 312 A: Money, Love and Marriage in Europe and America

JSIS B 312 A – GWSS 312 A – GLITS 251 C - JSIS A 494 A

 Autumn Quarter 2025

5 credits

Money, Love and Marriage:

Women in Europe and America

Professor: Nektaria Klapaki

Email: nklapaki@uw.edu

Class Schedule (in-person): M/W, 10:30-12:20 (CMU 226)

Office: THO 225B

Office Hours (in person or via Zoom): W, 9:00-10:00 AM & by appointment

Zoom link:

https://washington.zoom.us/j/2656597688?pwd=MFJybXhoTVM5M3JJaXVxWG0ybmNZQT09

Meeting ID: 265 659 7688

Course Description

Marriage for love or money?  The age-old clash between a romantic version of marriage versus one based on economic considerations captures a range of key issues, such as gender and class relations, feminist versus patriarchal ideology, and the relationship between desire, marriage, and capital/power.  Covering a broad chronological and geographical scope spanning across Europe (late 18^th- and early 19^th-century England), America (mid 19^th-century New York) and the Mediterranean (late 19^th- and early 20^th-century Greece), the course provides a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between desire, capital, and the institution of marriage through three case studies and four novels (alongside some of their film adaptations): Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), Henry James’s Washington Square (1880), Konstantinos Theotokis’s Honor and Price (1912), and Alexandros Papadiamantis’s The Murderess (1903).  We analyze these novels by drawing on seminal texts in the fields of literature, history, anthropology, gender, feminist literary criticism and cultural studies.  Some of the specific topics we focus on are: forms of marriage payments; marriage settlements; the legal system of coverture; marriage as a form of patriarchal exchange; the marriage market; commodification of men and women in the marriage market; women and property rights versus women as property; the relation of dowries and fortunes to wo/men’s economic and social mobility; money and dowries as symbols of attitudes toward women and marriage; the relationship between women, wealth and desire in the 19^th-century Anglo-American and Modern Greek novel; the marriage plot in the 19^th-century Anglo-American novel; the trope of the blazon in the courtship novel.

Course Learning Objectives

• Analyze major themes in the history of marriage, dowry, and gender relations across different cultural contexts.
• Critically examine key texts from Anglo-American and Modern Greek novelistic traditions that explore the intersections of gender, marriage, desire, and capital.
• Evaluate the relationship between patriarchal and feminist ideologies as represented in literature and historical contexts.
• Apply interdisciplinary perspectives to interpret complex gender relations in various societal structures.
• Develop and articulate well-reasoned arguments about the role of economic considerations in romantic relationships and marriage institutions.
• Demonstrate enhanced critical thinking and analytical skills through literary analysis, class discussions, and written assignments.

Required Reading and Other Material

• A series of articles (available on Canvas)
• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (New York: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2016).

The entire book (above edition) is available in electronic format through the UW Libraries.

• Henry James, Washington Square (New York, NY: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2016). The entire book (above edition) is available in electronic format through the UW Libraries.

Konstantinos Theotokis, What Price Honour? The Convict: Two Novellas, trans. from the Greek by J.M. Q. Davies (London: Colenso Books, 2020). The book is available for purchase at the UW Bookstore.

Alexandros Papadiamantis, The Murderess, trans. from the Greek by Peter Levi (New York: New York Review of Books, 1983). The book is available for purchase at the UW Bookstore and is required only by students who take this course as Senior Seminar (JSIS A 494 A)

• A series of films and other audio-visual material (available online through links on Canvas).
• Please note: the Bibliography comprises additional articles and book chapters besided those required in the Course Schedule and Readings section. The additional articles and book chapters are completely optional and you can read them if you are interested in learning more about the topics discussed in the class.

Class Assignments and Grading

• Two take-home, open-book quizzes FOR ALL STUDENTS (15% each): (study guide on Canvas)
• One in-class, closed-book midterm exam FOR ALL STUDENTS (30%): (study guide on Canvas)
• One in-class, closed-book final exam ONLY FOR JSIS B 312 A, GLITS 251 C, GWSS 312 A students (40%) (study guide on Canvas)
• One final paper (40%) ONLY FOR JSIS A 494 A students: (study guide on Canvas)

Grade scale

The following grade scale will be used to convert percentages to GPA points:

General Method of Instruction and Other Important Information regarding communication with Professor Klapaki

• Masks or face coverings in classroom: Students should comply with UW rules regarding masks or face coverings, vaccination, etc. It is the students’ responsibility to stay up-to-date in regards to evolving UW rules pertaining to COVID-19.
• Potential disruptions to in-person teaching: In case I experience COVID-19 symptoms or I get sick and I cannot make it to the class, you will be notified via email ahead of time. I will let you know if another instructor will step in to take over the class temporarily or if I will continue to teach the class via Zoom until I am able to resume in-person instruction.
• Method of instruction: Lecture and discussion.
• Missing a class: If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to take class notes from another student, and then set up an appointment to consult with me, should you have any questions about the material covered in the lecture. It is your responsibility to stay connected, informed and up-to-date on class materials, assignments and due dates.
• Missing a quiz or exam: If you cannot take a quiz or exam because of a verified illness, a personal or family emergency, please notify me as soon as possible so we can make alternative arrangements.
• Late assignment submission: Extensions will be granted only in cases of verified emergencies. Late assignments will suffer a drop in grade by 0.5 per day (for example, from a 4.0 to a 3.5)
• Plagiarism and Academic Integrity: Please read carefully and closely abide by the Student Conduct Code (see end of the syllabus).
• Class website: I will maintain a class website on Canvas, where you will find uploaded the required readings (indicated in the course schedule accordingly). All the information you need for the class will be available on Canvas, which you should be checking regularly. You should also be checking regularly your UW email, as I will be sending class notifications through the UW email.
• Course syllabus: I retain the right to make changes to the course readings. I treat the syllabus as a “living document” that can evolve and change, depending on the specific needs of the class. Should I decide to do make any changes, you will be notified ahead of time.
• Office hours: I’m available to talk in-person or via Zoom. If you cannot make it during the designated office hours, please email me to schedule an appointment at a mutually convenient date and time.
• Class break: A short break will be provided halfway through the class.
• Technology resources: Regarding the use of technology, there are a lot of online resources to learn about the technologies we will be using for this class. I will post links to some of these resources on the Canvas website of the course. You can always seek help from classmates, UW workshops etc.  Please remember that we are all learning in terms of how to be improving our skills of technology use, so try to be patient, understanding but also determined.

Course Schedule and Readings

1. SEPT 24 Introduction

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

2. SEPT 29 Marriage payments and the system of patriarchal exchange: a historical overview

• Anderson 2007: 151-174 (Canvas)
• Goody 2000: 86-99 (Canvas)
• Kaplan 1984: 1-11 (Canvas)
• Power point presentation (Canvas)

JANE AUSTEN

3. OCT 1 The commodification of wo/men in the English marriage market

• Austen 2016: ch. 1-20
• Jones 2009: 1-23 (Canvas)
• Green 1991: 69-79 (Canvas)
• Power point presentation (Canvas)

4. OCT 6 Wo/men’s fortune, class, family: Real and symbolic commodities in the English marriage market (i)

• Austen 2016: ch. 21-40
• Jones 2009: 24-41 (Canvas)
• Power point presentation (Canvas)

5. OCT 8 Women’s virtue and beauty: Real and symbolic commodities in the English marriage market (ii)

• Brief in-class presentation on UW Libraries resources by Humanities librarian Deb Raftus
• Austen 2016: ch. 41-52
• Power point presentation (Canvas)
• Quiz 1 study guide for JSIS B 312 A, GWSS 312 A, GLITS 251 C, JSIS A 494 A (Canvas)
• Take-home, open-book Quiz 1 for JSIS B 312 A, GWSS 312 A, GLITS 251 C, JSIS A 494 A, available on Canvas between October 8^th, 9:00 AM - October 9^th, 9:00 AM. Due by October 9^th, 9:00 AM

6. OCT 13 The courtship novel: From the marriage bargain to the companionate marriage

• Austen 2016: ch. 53-61
• Green 1991: 153-159 (Canvas) (p. 153 here)
• Boone 1987: 1-20, 89-99 (Canvas)
• Power point presentation (Canvas)

7. 7. OCT 15 Film screening (No in-class meeting. Please watch the film linked on Canvas at a time that is convenient to you).

• Joe Wright (dir.), Pride and Prejudice, 2005

HENRY JAMES

8. OCT 20 Women’s property rights and the women’s rights movement in 19^th C. U.S.

• Basch 1986: 18-40 (Canvas)
• Power point presentation (Canvas)

9. OCT 22 Gender relations, commodification, and the system of patriarchal exchange in Washington Square

• James 2016: ch. 1-10
• Bell 1993: 42-65 (Canvas)
• Wagner 1985: 216-231 (Canvas)
• Power point presentation (Canvas)

10. OCT 27 Misalliances: The American heiress and the fortune-hunter

• James 2016: ch. 11-29
• Montgomery 2013: 137-159 (Canvas)
• Buonomo 2019: 30-44 (Canvas)
• Power point presentation (Canvas)
• Quiz 2 study guide for JSIS B 312 A, GWSS 312 A, GLITS 251 C, JSIS A 494 A (Canvas)
• Take-home, open-book Quiz 2 for JSIS B 312 A, GWSS 312 A, GLITS 251 C, JSIS A 494 A, available on Canvas between October 27^th, 9:00 AM - October 28^th, 9:00 AM. Due by October 28^th, 9:00 AM

11. OCT 29 Acts of gender resistance and female agency

• Power point presentation (Canvas)

12. NOV 3 “The spinster”: Emancipation from the marriage bargain

• James 2016: ch. 30-35
• Power point presentation (Canvas)

13. NOV 5 Film screening (No in-class meeting. Please watch the film linked on Canvas at a time that is convenient to you)

• William Wyler (dir.), The Heiress, 1949
• No readings

14. NOV 10 In-class, closed-book midterm exam, 10:30 – 12:20, for JSIS B 312 A, GWSS 312 A, GLITS 251 C, JSIS A 494 A - Blue books will be provided

• Midterm study guide for JSIS B 312 A, GWSS 312 A, GLITS 251 C, JSIS A 494 A (Canvas)

KONSTANTINOS THEOTOKIS

15. NOV 12 The institution of dowry in Modern Greece: An overview

• Doxiadis 2011: 1-33 (Canvas)
• Lambiri-Dimaki 1985: 165-178 (Canvas)
• Franghiadis 1998: 187-192 (Canvas)
• Power point presentation (Canvas)

16. NOV 17 From trousseaux to cash endowments: Changing attitudes towards women

• du Boulay1983: 243-270 (Canvas)
• Power point presentation (Canvas)

17. NOV 19 A woman’s honor, beauty, and cash dowry: Symbolic and real commodities in What Price Honour?

• Theotokis 2020: ch. I-VI (Canvas)
• Beaton: 103-106 (Canvas)
• Dermitzakis 1998: 554-559 (Canvas)
• Power point presentation (Canvas)
• Final paper study guide only for JSIS A 494 A (Canvas)
• First draft of final paper only by JSIS A 494 due by 11:59 PM

18. NOV 24 Possibilities of emancipation from the marriage bargain: The single mother

• Theotokis 2020: ch. VII-XIII (Canvas)
• Power point presentation (Canvas)

19. DEC 1 In-class film screening, Tonia Marketaki (dir.), The Price of Love, 1984

• No readings

20. DEC 3 Comparing Austen, James and Theotokis

• No readings
• Power point presentation (Canvas)

21. DEC 8 In-class, closed-book final exam, 8:30-10.20 AM, for JSIS B 312 A, GWSS 312 A, GLITS 251 C - Blue books will be provided

Final paper due by 11:59 PM only by JSIS A 494 A students

• Final exam study guide only for JSIS B 312 A, GWSS 312 A, GLITS 251 C (Canvas)

Bibliography & Further Reading

Peter Allen, “Female Inheritance, Housing and Urbanization”, Anthropology, 10/1 (1986): 1-17.

Siwan Anderson, ‘The Economics of Dowry and Brideprice’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 21, no. 4, (2007): 151-174.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (New York, NY.: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2016).

Françoise Basch, ‘Women’s Rights and the Wrongs of Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth Century America’, History Workshop, no 22, Autumn 1986, pp. 18-40.

Roderick Beaton, An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 103-106.

Ian F. A. Bell, Washington Square: Styles of Money (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993), pp. 42-65.

Leonardo Buonomo, ‘Material Boy: Morris Townsend and the Lure of Comfort in Washington Square’, The Henry James Review 40 (2019): 30-44.

Joseph Allen Boone, Tradition, Counter-Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), pp. 1-20.

Juliet du Boulay, ‘The Meaning of Dowry: Changing Values in Rural Greece’, Journal of Modern Greek Studies Vol. 1. No. 1, 1983, pp. 243-270.

Paul Sant Cassia and Constantina Bada, The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Christopher Clay, ‘Marriage, Inheritance, and the Rise of Large Estates in England, 1660-1815’, The Economic History Review, New Series 21/3 (Dec. 1968): 503-518.

Babis Dermitzakis, ‘Honour and Shame in the Work of Constantinos Theotokis’, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, (1998): 554-559.

Donna Dickenson, Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 26-57.

Evdoxios Doxiadis, The Shackles of Modernity: Women, Property, and the Transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek State (1750-1850) (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 1-33, 35-77.

Jill Dubisch, Gender & Power in Rural Greece (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), pp. 3-41.

Bo-Lennart Eklund, ‘The Socialism of Constantinos Theotokis: An Analysis Based on the Concepts timi and xrima in Two of his Works’, Scandinavian Studies in Modern Greeek, 1978, pp. 3-27.

Alexis Franghiadis, ‘Dowry, Capital Accumulation and Social Reproduction in 19^th-Century Greek Agriculture’, Melanges de l’Ecole francaise de Rome. Italie et Mediterranee, 1998, volume 110, No. 1, pp. 187-192.

Jack Goody, The European Family. An Historico-Anthropological Essay (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), pp. 86-99.

Katherine Sobba Green, The Courtship Novel, 1740-1820: A Feminized Genre (Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1991), pp. 69-79, 153-160.

Katrina Honeyman, Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700-1870 (London: Macmillan Press, 2000), pp. 51-71.

Diane Owen Hughes, ‘From Brideprice to Dowry in Mediterranean Europe’, in Marion A. Kaplan (ed.), The Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1985), pp. 13-58.

Michael Herzfeld, “Within and Without: The Category of ‘Female’ in the Ethnography of Modern Greece.” In J. Dubisch (ed.) Gender and Power in Rural Greece (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), pp. 215-34.

Michael Hertzfeld, ‘The Dowry in Greece: Terminological Usage and Historical Reconstruction’, Ethnohistory, 27/3 (1980): 225-41.

Renee Hirschon, ‘Property, Power and Gender Relations’, in R. Hirschon (ed.), “Women and Property-Women as Property.” (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984), pp. 1-22.

22. Hirschon, ‘Property, Power and Gender Relations’, in R. Hirschon (ed.), “Women and Property-Women as Property.” (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984), pp. 1-22.
23. Hirschon, “Open Body/ Closed Space: The transformation of female sexuality.” In S. Ardener (ed.) Defining Females, (Oxford: Berg, 1993), pp. 51-72.

Katie Holmes, ‘“Spinsters Indispensable”: Feminists, Single Women and the Critique of Marriage, 1890-1920’, Australian Historical Studies 29/110 (1998): 68-90.

Henry James, Washington Square (New York, NY.: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2016).

Hazel Jones, Jane Austen and Marriage (London: Continuum, 2009), pp. 7-41.

Jane Lambiri-Dimaki, ‘Dowry in Modern Greece: An Institution at the Crossroads Between Persistence and Decline’, in Marion A. Kaplan (ed.), The Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1985), pp. 165-178.

Peggy McCormack, The Rule of Money: Gender, Class, and Exchange Economics in the Fiction of Henry James (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1990), pp. 1-7.

Elsie B. Michie, The Vulgar Question of Money: Heiress, Materialism and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), pp. 1-25, 26-40.

Maureen E. Montgomery, Gilded Prostitution: Status, Money, and Transatlantic Marriages, 1870-1914 (London: Routledge 2013), pp. 137-159.

Anne Phillips, Our Bodies, Whose Property? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), pp. 18-41.

Naomi Braun Rosenthal, Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002).

Ingrid H. Tague, ‘Love, Honor, and Obedience: Fashionable Women and the Discourse of Marriage in the Early Eighteenth Century’, Journal of British Studies 40/1 (Jan. 2001): 76-106.

Vern Wagner “Henry James: Money and Sex”, The Sewanee Review, vol. 93. No. 2, Spring 1985, pp. 216-231.

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