HIS 320 - American Women’s History

Semester Hours: 4

Students in this course will examine the myriad ways that women and men have argued, organized, and demonstrated for women’s rights in the United States from the Revolutionary War to the #MeToo Movement. The course will cover racially, socio-economically, and religiously diverse groups as well as the divisions within women’s social movements. Students will also study and discuss historiographical developments that include the debate over the wave metaphor and the emergence of women’s and gender history