American Women in the Twentieth Century

Undergraduate

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.