History 697I - ST-Topics in US Women's Hist

This course will focus on selected topics in U.S. women's and gender history from the colonial era to the present. Our focus will be on how interpretations of women's experience have been influenced by changing conceptions of race ethnicity, sexuality, family, class, religion, region, immigration, economics, and politics. We will consider and compare the lives of Native American women, African American, Asian American women, Latina women, and European American women from the colonial period through industrialization and into the twentieth century. We may also give special consideration to different forms of women's political participation, to the influences of different conceptions of masculinity and femininity on political and cultural discourse, and to changing scientific constructions of body norms, ability and disability, reproduction, race and eugenics, womanhood and motherhood, heterosexuality and homosexuality.

Open to Doctoral & Masters students only.