Department of History

History 697I: Topics in U.S. Women's History

Laura Lovett

Fall 2007, Thurs. 2:30 - 5:00

Synopsis:

This course will focus on selected topics in U. S. women’s and gender history from the colonial era to the present. Our focus will be on how interpretations of women’s experience have been influenced by changing conceptions of race, ethnicity, sexuality, family, class, religion, region, immigration, economics, and politics. We will give special consideration to different forms of women’s political participation, to the influence of different conceptions of masculinity and femininity on political and cultural discourse, and to changing scientific constructions of body norms, ability and disability, reproduction, race, and eugenics, womanhood and motherhood, heterosexuality and homosexuality.

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