WGSS 23.02 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.

Cross Listed Courses

HIST 028

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:SOC; WCult:CI

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