History 278 - WOMEN IN US SINCE 1865

Survey of women's and gender history with focus on race, class, and sexuality. Informed by feminist methodologies to consider how the study of women's lives changes our understanding of history, knowledge, culture, and the politics of resistance. Topics include emancipation from slavery, race and racism, labor, colonialism, imperialism, im/migration, nationalism, popular culture, citizenship, education, religion, war, consumerism, civil rights and the modern freedom movement, feminism, queer cultures, and globalizing capitalism.