Critical Social Thought 249US - Topics in Critical Social Thought: 'U.S. Women's History Since 1890'

US Women's History Since 1890

Spring
2023
01
4.00
Mary Renda

TTH 10:30AM-11:45AM

Mount Holyoke College
120163
Skinner Hall 216
mrenda@mtholyoke.edu
119712,120178,120163
This course considers the historical evolution of women's private lives, public presence, and political engagement within and beyond the borders of the United States, from the 1890s to the present. How have U.S. racism, consumer capitalism, immigration, and changing forms of state power shaped women's experiences and possibilities? How have regimes of gender, sexuality, bodily comportment, and reproduction evolved in relation to national and global changes? Emphasis will be placed on the experiences and perspectives of working-class women, women of color, and colonized women.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.