HIST 286

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US Gender History Since 1877

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Credit: 3 hours.

This course examines the historical construction of gender in the United States since 1877 with particular attention to women’s history. It considers how ideas about proper roles for men and women intersected with social categories such as class, race, (dis)ability, and ethnicity to shape lives, bodies, opportunities, politics, and power. Topics include work, family roles, leisure, political participation, health, sexuality, religion, popular culture, and struggles for influence, equality, self-expression, and rights.

Same as GWS 286.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil

Cultural Studies - US Minority

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HIST 286 class schedule data for fall 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	70121	Lecture-Discussion	A	2:00PM -3:20PM	MW	English Building	Reagan, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - US Minority course. Section Info: Description: This course examines gender historically—how it has been created, challenged, changed and, always, in terms of how gender intersects with categories and identities of class, race, ethnicity, religion, region, sexual preference, and disability. Topics and readings include, for example, enslaved women, motherhood; unionization efforts, domestic labor, sexual assault, Helen Keller, Ida B. Wells, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Phyllis Schlafly, Black Lives Matter, social movements organized by racial and/or religious and sexual identities for voting rights, reproductive rights, and equality. Through this course, students will better understand contemporary society within a historical context and how to situate themselves within that historical context. Expect interesting readings, films, writing and discussion.