The aim of the course is to intruduce the students to those interpretative instruments of society, politics, law and history from a perspective both macro and micri, historical and contemporary. The instructors will use “gender” as the primary category of analysis of society, politics, history and law. “Gender”, as an interpretative category, has been introduced by Joan Scott in order to underline the awarness of the social and cultural constructions of the fifferences between the sexes, beginning from the position of subjectivity in a sexuated world. An important aim will be to fill a gap in knowledge in order to comprehend assumptions behind deeply modes of thoughts that continue to affect women’s and men’s life in significant ways.