Gender Studies 117 - FYS:Women, Politics, Activism

'How have women both used and rejected the power of the United States government to pursue their visions of a just world? This seminar examines the history of women's activism and political leadership in the United States and elsewhere under U.S. rule. African American freedwomen, white woman suffragists, Italian immigrant anarchist-feminists, Puerto Rican labor activists, builders of an international women's movement, Civil Rights leaders, advocates of gay marriage, and housewives who organized for change on the right as well as on the left are among the women whose movements and political initiatives we will study.'

This course is limited to first-year students.