79-320: Women and Power
This course examines the history of women's rights agitation in theUnited States from the early nineteenth-century to the present. Itinvestigates both well-known struggles for women's equality--includingthe battles for women's voting rights, an Equal Rights Amendment, andaccess to birth control--and also explores the history of lesser-knownstruggles for economic and racial justice. Because women often differedabout what the most important issues facing their sex were, this courseexplores not only the issues that have united women, but also those thathave divided them. Do women constitute a coherent category? And can awomen's rights movement represent all women? These are some of thequestions at the heart of this class.
| A | MW | 10:30 am - 11:50 am | BH 237B | Tetrault |