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Gender, Sexuality, and History (321-0-20)

Topic

US Women's History to 1865

Instructors

Susan Pearson
847/491-3744
Harris Hall - Room 338

Meeting Info

Locy Hall 301: Mon, Wed 11:00AM - 12:20PM

Overview of class

Topic: US Women's History to 1865.

This course is a survey of U.S. women's history from colonial settlement through 1865. It focuses not only women's experiences and activities in the past but also on how constructions of gender have been critical to a variety of other histories from slavery and racial formation to American political and economic development. There are different ways of doing women's history and this course includes examples of many of them. In some versions of women's history, we simply add women to the events of the past - asking, for example: how did women contribute to the American Revolution? In other versions, we show how adding women to history changes fundamentally our understanding of the past. Still more radical, we consider not women's roles and activities in the past, but instead how gender as an ideology has structured our thought and been used to organize the way we distribute power, money, work, responsibility.

Class Materials (Required)

TBD

Class Attributes

Historical Studies Distro Area

Associated Classes

DIS - Kresge Centennial Hall 2-343: Thurs 10:00AM - 10:50AM

DIS - Kresge Centennial Hall 2-343: Thurs 11:00AM - 11:50AM

DIS - Kresge Centennial Hall 2-331: Thurs 1:00PM - 1:50PM