2012-2013 Academic Catalog

May 05, 2024

2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 319 - History of American Women

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion

This course moves through the chronology of American history to examine the broad themes that have shaped women’s lives in the United States from the colonial period to the present. While tracing larger trends and identifying common experiences, we will also pay close attention to the specific experiences of individual women in order to shed light on the differences and divisions among them. Throughout, we will investigate the ways in which notions of gender difference have changed over time and how a wide variety of women both created and responded to shifting and contested cultural, political, and social roles.