HIST 2015 — - Women in North American History, 1900 - Present
This is a survey course in the history of American women in North America from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Students will examine women's culture and society in a maturing urban industrial order in the late nineteenth century Gilded Age; analyze women's political activism in the Progressive Era, and explore the changing notions of sexuality that influenced gender roles for both women and men in the early twentieth century. Also included are topics concerning women's roles in the Great Depression and World War II, the re-emergence of the Cult of Domesticity in the postwar era, the civil rights movement, and feminism's second wave in the 1960s and 1970s. Lecture: 3 hours