Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0221 - History of Women/Feminism

This course is designed to introduce students to the main trends and themes of British and United States women's history from 1820 through World War I and to trace the various "feminisms" that emerge as a result of capitalist development and responding labor movements in each county. We will discuss individual women leaders as well as the movements they led and the ways in which "the woman question" was hotly debated in the press, the university classroom, and the political arena; readings of literary texts such as Bronte's Jane Eyre will complement our analysis of primary historical sources. Throughout the course we will focus on the convergence of gender, sexuality, race, class and politics in Victorian feminist and socialist reform movements. In addition to making oral presentations and writing short papers, students will have the opportunity to conduct primary research on nineteenth-century women's history in local and online archives as a prelude to completing a final research paper.

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Power, Community and Social Justice Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research This course satisfies the Division I Distribution Requirement. In this course students are expected to spend 8-10 hours on preparation and work weekly outside of class time.