WGS 200: Women’s Movements of the United States

Goal: To explore in an interdisciplinary and historical context the wide range of social and cultural issues and the associated activisms which have affected women’s experiences, value, and status focused on US societal contexts. (United States emphasis.)
Content: This course will center on the early women’s movements (1800s-mid-1900s), examining the important issues of concern and making connections to those experienced today. Topics to be explored may include gender roles and images in history, language, literature, news, media, religion, art, and science; sexuality, family, reproduction, and parenthood; work, employment, and the economics; law, rights, government, and politics; past feminist movements. Methods include cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural study of women’s lives, intersectional gender analysis, and questioning the role that gender plays in an individual’s lived experience and a community’s position in society. (You may not take WGS 200 if you have taken WST 200: Women, Culture, & Society.)
Gen. Ed. Category: Exploring; Historical Events & Phenomena; (HUM).
Credit: 3
Degree Level: Undergraduate