Description
An analysis of women's movements which have influenced American history including those causes which women have espoused, those trends which women have established, and those alliances, both holy and unholy, which women have formed to mobilize the expression of their viewpoints. This course will consider the role of women in each of the following categories: the colonial scene, the voluntary era, reformism in the Jacksonian period, abolitionism and the Civil War, women and economics suffrage, the twenties, pacifism and progressivism, women in literature, sex in contemparary society.