HIST 28 American Women in the Twentieth Century
This course is a multi-cultural multi-media history of American women from the Civil War to the present. We will discuss race and class tensions in the woman suffrage movement; women, labor and radicalism from the 1910s through the 1940s; civil rights, welfare rights, the rebirth of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, and backlash politics from the 1950s to the 1980s. Open to all classes.
Instructor
Orleck
Cross Listed Courses
WGSS 23.02
Department-Specific Course Categories
Class of 2023 and Before Major Dist: US; Class of 2024 and Beyond Major Dist: US, modern.